AssholeDesign

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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Google deleted an open source app I love (install from F-Droid) for being "Fake" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It could just ask before removing shit. Remove the permissions, freeze the app, prompt the user to confirm they meant to install it from somewhere other than the playstore. Hell, since it can detect F-Droid is installed, maybe use some context clues and ask the user to confirm this app was installed from there?

More importantly, can you tell it to ignore certain apps? I don't know, I've had Play Protect turned off forever. If not, that's absolutely asshole design.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More importantly, can you tell it to ignore certain apps?

Yes, but it stops ignoring them after a while

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

and you come back to your phone and its uninstalled again, scummy! uninstalling also REMOVES the user's data they stored in the app. turn off Play Protect!