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Love the fact the article links directly to the solution. Thank you for this!

This event prompted the development of an empty app: a placeholder with the same name and a massively inflated version number, SafetyCore v2000000000. Users sideload it, so the Google Play Store can’t overwrite the app with the real SafetyCore.

Just make sure to read the GitHub page first as proper uninstallation of the original is essential.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

Hopefully ythis gets added to F-Droid!

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

But the title says it can't be removed?

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The article adds more details by explaining the app keeps getting silently reinstalled

[-] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How would it be reinstalled if you can't uninstall it in the first place?

To me "can't remove" implies it cannot be uninstalled at all.

[-] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Guess you could read the article to find out

[-] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 22 hours ago

I was more complaining about the obviously-wrong title, because yes the article does explain how to uninstall it.

[-] zout@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this!

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