Happened to me, I had to disable Play Protect scanning... interestingly, in ghe deacription in Android settings, it claims Play Protect will scan and WARN, not remove, apps. That is clearly a lie.
One way to be a little less constantly violated by your phone is to run GrapheneOS, instead of iOS or ordinary Android: <a href="https://grapheneos.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://grapheneos.org/</a>
Google wants more control by projecting itself as infallible trust authority on device.
Its standards are so high that if you are ever on other side of its automated tools first response usually is blame user rather than hire any human support team to investigate issues even if they may be coming from its programs. And then the reports keep coming on how it was error or mistake due to scale of operations its just rounding error. Next time it will be different. Trust us we are the only ones who knows this or able to do it right even if we sometimes do make mistakes you should only let us do it. No one is better than us.
Related to this, I really dislike how Google Play acts like it owns your device. Installing an apk? Hey, I'm Google Play, I exist, how about turning Play Protect on?
It looks like KDE Connect doesn't have reproducible builds set up for F-droid. I wonder if this problem could be avoided with reproducible builds?
Today I learned KDEConnect has a MacOS app. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be actively developed.<p><a href="https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html</a>
I swear on God. Just 2 days back playstore decided to auto update my installed apps. The thing is I have them disabled by default. I cancelled the update, switched off the wifi. But once I turned it back on, it started auto updating again.
A lot more similar reports can be found here: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_protect_removed_kde_connect_from_your/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_prote...</a>
I don't use KDEConnect, but quite a while ago I got FUD about battery life from Play Protect concerning F-Droid itself. Never mind that F-Droid has never used more than trivial amounts of battery.
Is this proven? Some days ago I saw the reddit thread which is actually the first and only reply in the link and in that reddit thread there is no conclusion yet on who is actually affected<p>why this conclusive title then?