I keep Play Protect disabled so that it doesn't do shit like this. I don't need some mega corporation deleting stuff off my property that it doesn't agree with.
I have play protect disabled. It gets annoying that it randomly asks to re-enable every so often, so I created a Tasker automation to dismiss that popup of it detects it. Doesn't always work, but it's better than nothing. Super annoying that you can't tell Google to stop asking already and no, I don't want play protect.
I'm testing out grapheneos on another phone, which has all the Google stuff stripped out or sandboxed, so I don't have to worry about it there.
So no, play protect hasn't removed my KDE connect app, but it hasn't been given the opportunity to try.
Mines good and from the Reddit thread the majority of people installed it on fdroid and maybe play protect just removed it because the package name and signatures didn't match, at least that is what's being suspected
Play Protect has no business uninstalling apps for any reason. It should be scanning apk for malware at install time, period.
If you installed a package with malware before its signature is added, you could have this malware on your phone forever.
It should tell you if it deleted an app though.
Completely agree with you A couple of days ago I was also confused I updated an app on fdroid and suddenly i got a push up message asking me to send the app to play protect to get it verified...
I remember it popping up a dialog "warning" me about an app I was about to install but I don't remember what it was. It was something totally innocuous anyway. The installer has definitely started using some "political" criteria.
Which is totally bogus, I mean it's over thing for Google to arbitrarily kick apps out of the Store but it's another to poke their nose into our phones and try to regulate what we use. Crosses a line.
Yes. Kdeconnect ( from Fdroid ) was removed. I just reinstalled from Playstore.
I guess this will happen with other apps without notifying me. Anyone moving to microg ?
Edit: updating this comment with lineageos/microg.
Installed from F-Droid. I still see it here
It happened to me. Xperia XA2 running LOS + gapps and google account, with kdeconnect installed from f-droid.org.
All good on mine
KDE Connect is still on my phone. Installed from Google Play Store.
I installed it from F-droid and it's still there and working.
All good here too.
I think it depends on where you installed it from
No issues with the GPlay version on Android 11
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