A screenshot of Droid-ify being blocked by Google Play Protect. The reason given is "This app can collect data that could be used to track you." It can still be installed, but "Install anyway" is shown as text next to the OK button to make it easy to miss.

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   Sylvia (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 05:57:41 JST Sylvia

   It seems #Google's war against #ThirdPartyAppStores has escalated to abusing #GooglePlayProtect to spread #FUD about them.

   Someone in the #FDroid chat posted an image about being warned that #Droidify can track them.

   While getting a list of installed apps could be used to detect e.g. sexual orientation (if a gay dating app is installed), it is much more minor than the tracking many apps on Google Play actively do. Yet, it allows Google to mark all third party app stores as dangerous.