Comment by gumby271
4 days ago
I mean, I'm happy to be conspiratorial about it too, I give Google no benefit of the doubt, but outside of Play Protect I don't think they explicitly say "your phone is telling us every app you install." This new feature is them making that explicit.
How can you say “outside of Play Protect” when it comes enabled by default and hassles me to turn it back on every time I install an APK?
Really? I turned Play Protect off and have never been prompted to turn it back on, what phone do you have that does that?
It's this screen: https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/230937718/annoy... (not several times per hour like this post says, but same UI)
Pretty sure this is a Play Services thing, so I don't know that the phone model really matters. But regardless this is on a few different devices: my primary REDMAGIC 9S Pro (Android 15), Surface Duo 2 (Android 12), and my YONGNUO YN455 (Android 10).