[HN Gopher] Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone...
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       Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know
        
       Author : cryne
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2023-10-12 18:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | wing-_-nuts wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | Tommstein wrote:
         | > 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_ ).
        
         | Larrikin wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | kwhitefoot wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | Almondsetat wrote:
         | Still can't create a temporary ad hoc wireless network to
         | transfer files directly between devices. If they did that it
         | would be on par with airdrop
        
       | Tommstein wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Vt71fcAqt7 wrote:
       | >It is affecting the f-droid users
       | 
       | Wow, I didn't know play 'protect' could do that.
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | 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.)
        
           | fifteen1506 wrote:
           | Or GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services running as regular
           | user apps.
        
           | endemic wrote:
           | > "de-googled" Android variant and run no Google services
           | 
           | The only way to fly!
        
       | orangepurple wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | nubinetwork wrote:
       | It's still on the play store... last update was on September 20.
        
       | Zetobal wrote:
       | 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...
        
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