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

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Post by arcanemachiner »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #3

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.

I use the HTTP server built into Mixplorer (the best file manager I've ever used). It can be added as a Quick Settings toggle.

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

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Post by Brian_K_White »

deadbunny wrote: post #21
Brian_K_White wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one should use graphene.

Why?

Because it requires placing trust in someone who does not exhibit enough stability or rationality to justify that trust.

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

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Post by soupbowl »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #23
deadbunny wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Because it requires placing trust in someone who does not exhibit enough stability or rationality to justify that trust.

I really like grapheneOS features and it clearly increased my battery life but... . After looking at the community, some of the developers, seem fragile and unstable. It is the only negative I have for grapheneOS but it stands out enough to make me reconsider using it.

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

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Post by crtasm »

hulitu wrote: post #26
Tommstein wrote: post #4

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.

How do you turn it off ?

Play Store, tap your profile picture at top-right, Play Protect is on the menu.

Google will sometimes prompt to re-enable it when installing/updating apps from outside Play Store, I don't know if that can be stopped.

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #5

>It is affecting the f-droid users Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.

Malware tends to come from third party stores. An anti-malware system that only looked at apps installed from Play would be considerably less useful. False positives that trigger automatic quarantine are very bad. That's the root thing here.
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