Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!
Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!
Hello! We have noticed a couple of reports recently about Google Play Protect removing KDE Connect from some people’s phones, claiming it was...
TIL there is a Lemmy instance and a community (!kde@lemmy.kde.social) for KDE.
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.
GrapheneOS has Google Play Services with Play Protect. All you need to do on any Android phone is disable the app permission for reading other app packages or get usage data, using AppOpsX with ADB or AppOpsX with Shizuku. The sandboxing is almost meaningless when app permission control does everything in Android.
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.
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.
Permanently Deleted
Disable Play Protect. Takes 2 minutes.
Installed from F-Droid. I still see it here
TIL there is a nice 3rd party MacOS client https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto
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