Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
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Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
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Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#3Still 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.
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#4I 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.
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#5>It is affecting the f-droid users
Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#6Still 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.
> Edit: I installed via the play store, I see many folks have installed it via fdroid but I'm not sure why.
Because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429193 (KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS).
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#7>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.)
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#8If 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.
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#9Still 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.
Little known feature of tailscale, it let's you send files to all your devices. Has to be explicitly enabled on certain platforms and you'd never know it existed without reading the docs.
Re: Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
#10Still 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 found file transfer with KDEConnect unreliable and often ended up with corrupted copies. Now I use Syncthing instead and just permanently share a directory; when I want to share a file I just drop it in there and a few seconds later it is on all the other devices even if they are not in the same network segment.