Mastodawn

So I went to F-Droid and attempted to download the public transport plugin for Kvaesitso.

And I got a Google Play Protect popup message warning "harmful app detected".

It gave no further details about why this app is harmful.

Does anyone know if this app is harmful? If so how?

Or is this Google being a monopolist and blocking competing open source apps?

#Google #Android #AskFedi #FDroid #GooglePlay #degooglization #degoogleyourlife #Kvaesitso #infosec

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Zach 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

@aj The plugin’s source code is available on GitHub under the name “KvaesitsoPublicTransport”. The main Kvaesitso launcher is #opensource and available through #FDroid, with transparent permissions listed. One #GitHub issue for #Kvaesitso states the maintainer ignored #Google’s emails to re-verify the app, which led to some sort of “blocked” status.