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Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know

by cryne on 10/12/23, 6:57 PM with 30 comments

  • by nologic01 on 10/12/23, 9:31 PM

    This is an interesting exhibit as KDE Connect is an example of a powerful app. Powerful apps that do non-trivial things are needed to extract the potential of these wonderful devices. But they sail too close to the wind for the gatekeepers that rather keep them dumb devices locked and "safe".

    Over time this is going to stiffle innovation big time.

  • by wing-_-nuts on 10/12/23, 7:53 PM

    Still seems to be present on my phone.

    I love that little app. It's so dang useful to be able to wirelessly copy files from my pc to my phone and vice versa. I previously tried a sftp client on android (terminus?) to no avail.

    Edit: I installed via the play store, I see many folks have installed it via fdroid but I'm not sure why.

  • by Zetobal on 10/12/23, 8:36 PM

    Must be a bug there are other people on reddit reporting other apps get deleted as well. Even ones from Samsung.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/176bk9b/goog...

  • by Vt71fcAqt7 on 10/12/23, 8:05 PM

    >It is affecting the f-droid users

    Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.

  • by orangepurple on 10/12/23, 8:20 PM

    If you can stomach the compromises this is the way: https://lineage.microg.org/

    It's a never ending battle to access Play store apps with Google regularly breaking Aurora Store Nightly, but some of us manage.

  • by Tommstein on 10/12/23, 7:59 PM

    I still have it but plan on going postal if Google removes it. Just turned off Play Protect just in case. Abuse your power, lose your power.

  • by charcircuit on 10/12/23, 9:02 PM

    I turned off play protect when it marked an app as malware probably because it violated their play store guidelines and not because it was malicious.

    There is no way to permanently tell it that an app is not in fact malicous and it will keep asking you to remove it.

  • by kurtoid on 10/13/23, 12:07 PM

    KDE Connect plus Wireguard is my favorite combo.

    KDE Connect commands can also be triggered from Tasker, so with Autowear I can trigger commands from my watch

  • by bravetraveler on 10/13/23, 1:06 PM

    Still present here, v1.29 - appreciate the warning...

    I installed with the usual Play store, link seems to show mostly (all?) affected were f-droid users

  • by nubinetwork on 10/12/23, 8:31 PM

    It's still on the play store... last update was on September 20.