KDE Connect incorrectly marked as dangerous by Google Play Protect

[Albert Vaca Cintora]

The only thing I believe you can do is complain to Google, if you find some
way. Unfortunately we don't have a better answer, and this keeps happening
:(

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, 23:53 Luca Chiricozzi, <luca92web at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today, I found Google Play Protect incorrectly marking the KDE Connect
> app as dangerous on my phone. I found your post on the KDE Reddit board,
> and I hope to be helpful by sending you this email.
>
> I've installed KDE Connect from the F-Droid repository using Droid-ify
> as the client. The notification happened today after the app updated to
> version 1.32.10. On the reason why this is happening, I guess that it's
> an app installed from outside the Play Store that requires a lot of
> permissions that allow it to potentially monitor phone calls and
> messages on the phone, besides remotely controlling the device (mouse
> receiver), so just heuristics, but you probably already guessed it.
>
> If you need further help or assistance, please let me know. I can use
> adb and have some experience with Android apps.
>
> Regards,
> Luca Chiricozzi
>
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