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Google is taking more and more the direction of apple's sandbox policy. I can confirm there is no issue installing it in Graphene.
But hey, that popup might be right. Anything you install is potentially harmful. Don't thrust, verify https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats
I have it up and running on my Graphene phone already. My other pixel is soon to follow.
Robosats is great btw, thank you. I have completed a couple trades already 🤙
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I had similar "warnings" on my phone about citrine and amber. So I disabled PlayStore and use F-droid and zapstore 🤷🏾♂️
I have seen that too. Hastening my move to Graphene 💯
Has me wondering if I could prototype an Internet only communication device... because who in this day & age are actually making telephone calls? 🤔🤣
Google’s censorship machine at it again…
Even on Android if it's an apk it should be ok right ?
It gives this warning when I install through obtainium. Play protect is a system service, like an antivirus kind of. It works regardless of the install source. It uninstalled robosats without asking me prior to this.
Ok but you can force install it so it's not so bad. But the fact that it can uninstalled chosen app is indeed frightening lol
It actually uninstalled twice today. I reinstalled it this morning to take a look, and after work it had been removed again. You may be able to install it, but how long will it stay 😬
Ridiculous...
I also use GrapheneOS, but isn't this the whole point of Play Protect? I'm assuming it was installed outside of Google Play, which is likely a red flag to this software. The average user probably is better off with this behavior. Although, users should be able to disable if they can't already.
No play protect does not automatically uninstalls all apps installed outside of play store. It's supposed to only uninstall malicious apps, and robosats ain't one - and that's a problem.
They are probably using certain flags to determine potential or likely maliciousness. I doubt this is as insidious as some of you are making it. Don't use Play Protect if this is really that big of a problem. Systems like this will never be perfect in a world with so many applications and bad actors. Some good software will inevitably be caught up in the net like this.
Why is Robosats harmful? If I have allowed the install, why is it subsequently uninstalled with no input or notification?
I didn't say it was harmful. The more important question is why use Play Protect at all if your philosophy is that any app you allow to be installed is safe and should therefore remain? Things like PP aren't designed for people who know what they're doing. It's a lowest common denominator system designed to technological morons who may be tricked into installing things outside of Play. I'm merely speculating that RS could be meeting some arbitrary standard that unsafe apps commonly meet in the eyes of Google.
Google can't be expected to analyze every app closely after every update to avoid ever having a false positive. It's much easier to just play it safe and remove apps that don't meet their definition of safe. Like it or not, a Bitcoin trading app installed outside of Play probably isn't something their average users are installing.
I've also stated that users SHOULD be able to disable this if they really want to. This default behaviour probably is safer for the average stock Android user, even if some apps end up getting falsely accused and removed. Even being advanced enough to discuss this issue indicates that you just shouldn't use systems like that in the first place. It wasn't made for people like us.
The point of Google's Play Protect is to protect Google from competition.
Great ad for GrapheneOS, iodèOS and similar.
I need someone to sue Google over this bullshit Play ""protection"".
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