Interesting. But should this apply to many apps on F-Droid? I also have an app published on both the Play Store and F-Droid and I don’t recall having seen requests to change the application ID to avoid clashes between stores.
KDE Connect is likely a special case; as it is a PC integration app, and a very feature-loaded one at that, it accesses a whole bunch of sensitive stuff like notifications, clipboard, direct file access, SMS functions, keyboard inputs and more.
More than any other non-root-accessing app, you do not want a trojanised version of KDE Connect on your phone.
If the signature matches, Google probably won’t care where they are installed from. I suspect that the KDE Connect in fdroid is signed with a different certificate than on google play, causing it to be flagged as an impostor. This could probably be easily prevented by using the same cert or different app identifiers (to cause them to be treated as different apps).
All F-Droid apks are signed with a different key than the play store one: you do not upload your key when you publish on F-Droid and all the apps are built from source by the F-Droid build servers.
Strongly advice you to just turn off Play Protect. It sends your list of installed apps to Google (not that the Android as a whole will stop doing that even after you turn it off). They don’t do shit.
It’s really a shame that that is even normalized. Why is it their business to know what apps are installed on a personal device? Just one more way to fingerprint users and advertise to them.
I remember arguing with a google fanboi about Google’s diktat for Android apps to not have a shutdown button. He was waxing lyrical about how Google PBUH is all knowing and works in mysterious ways. I said google does this so that you can’t turn off its spyware shit.
There was a similar thread where Play Protect blocked installation of Signal. As it turned out, said copy of Signal was indeed fake, as op downloaded it from F-Droid, where it’s not being distributed.
Then this is a KDE Connect issue. If they sign with different keys, they should use different app names (in the manifest, the visible name could still be the same). If two apps have the same identifier but are signed with different certs, Google is right to treat one of them as an impostor.
Not only did the same thing happen to me, now that I’ve disabled Play Protect and reinstalled it I’m having trouble getting it to re-pair with my PC. Thanks for fucking up my property, Google. 🖕
Where’s the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when you need it?
Imagine doing a business if Google one day start to hate you.
No listing on most popular and the only search engine that counts. Most popular browser gives a big red warning for your website. Even with different browser it won’t connect due to Google being the most popular DNS provider. No app on the only widely used app store on Android - the only OS phone manufactures use besides Apple. Your app is automatically uninstalled on >99% Android phones. Your calls gets blocked by Android spam detector. Your e-mails get blocked by Gmail. And besides that, Google would pumps all of your competition up.
That much power over the market is very dangerous and should not be legal.
Still making it look like you can get rid of the ads but it doesn’t do that is assholedesign anyways, because they make it a don’t show again button, but they don’t say it only applies to that specific ad. Meaning they can push different ads to you
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