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>It is affecting the f-droid users Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.
Google has root on your Android phone, they can technically do anything they want. The only practical thing stopping them is their own scruples, for whatever that may be worth, or bad press. Same is true for Apple. (With one marrow exclusion for those who installed a "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services.)
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.
>It is affecting the f-droid users Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.
Google has root on your Android phone, they can technically do anything they want. The only practical thing stopping them is their own scruples, for whatever that may be worth, or bad press. Same is true for Apple. (With one marrow exclusion for those who installed a "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services.)
The only way to fly!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/176bk9b/goog...
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.
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Google has root on your Android phone, they can technically do anything they want. The only practical thing stopping them is their own scruples, for whatever that may be worth, or bad press. Same is true for Apple. (With one marrow exclusion for those who installed a "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services.)
Or GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services running as regular user apps.
I don't know why people hate on MicroG so much. Grapheneos devs foam at the mouth when you mention it and in the lineageos irc channel you get Insta kicked when you mention it.
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.
The good thing about MicroG is that you can replace some Google stuff with better ones like a local location DB. It's also much lighter because it doesn't spend 90% of its processing time trying to spy on you. Its code is actually written to do stuff on your behalf as the user, not Google's.
Sandboxing real Google Play does stop it from being able to do some of the spying but not all, and it doesn't stop it from trying and wasting battery power.
The only thing I really need from Google is the push messaging because most app services simply don't integrate with anything else :(
Over time this is going to stiffle innovation big time.
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Google has root on your Android phone, they can technically do anything they want. The only practical thing stopping them is their own scruples, for whatever that may be worth, or bad press. Same is true for Apple. (With one marrow exclusion for those who installed a "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services.)
Or GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services running as regular user apps.