Google appears to have quietly rolled out a feature to the Play Store that allows users to remotely uninstall apps from other devices.

Google appears to have quietly rolled out a feature to the Play Store that allows users to remotely uninstall apps from other devices.

  • @fadedmasterEnglish
    11•20 days ago

    Yeah. The title actually made me think they had rolled out the ability for Google to remove an app from my phone when it’s been removed from the Play Store.

    • ChewyEnglish
      3•20 days ago

      Google has always been able to remove installed apps remotely, although I believe they only use it for malicious apps, not for apps that simply get removed from the Play Store.

      But I’ve also been mislead by the headline.

      Clickbait makes me appreciate my preferred small tech news outlet, which has been doing serious journalism without sensationalism for over 25 years. The authors even interact in their forum, which is still active because of how the site actually cares about the community.

      My mental list of sites I try to avoid is longer than the list of actually good sites. Sadly those thrash sites get pushed up in rankings of Google News and similar aggregators because clickbait clicks well.