I have play protect disabled. It gets annoying that it randomly asks to re-enable every so often, so I created a Tasker automation to dismiss that popup of it detects it. Doesn’t always work, but it’s better than nothing. Super annoying that you can’t tell Google to stop asking already and no, I don’t want play protect.

I’m testing out grapheneos on another phone, which has all the Google stuff stripped out or sandboxed, so I don’t have to worry about it there.

So no, play protect hasn’t removed my KDE connect app, but it hasn’t been given the opportunity to try.

I keep Play Protect disabled so that it doesn’t do shit like this. I don’t need some mega corporation deleting stuff off my property that it doesn’t agree with.

Yes. Kdeconnect ( from Fdroid ) was removed. I just reinstalled from Playstore.

I guess this will happen with other apps without notifying me. Anyone moving to microg ?

Edit: updating this comment with lineageos/microg.

Installed from F-Droid. I still see it here

It happened to me. Xperia XA2 running LOS + gapps and google account, with kdeconnect installed from f-droid.org.

TIL there is a nice 3rd party MacOS client https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto

KDE Connect is still on my phone. Installed from Google Play Store.