Why does Google Play Protect stop me from sideloading apks (from, say, Obtainium) while almost regularly I read reports about malicious apps being available in Google Playstore itself ? Why do they allow those ?
Probably just a rant out of frustration. I ignore those alerts if I am confident about the apk I’m sideloading, lol.
If you don’t like it, turn it off.
This would be a valid complaint if it was forced on you, but it isn’t. You can both ignore the warnings and disable the feature entirely.
As to why it does that, it’s using heuristics based on the APIs the app calls and maybe a bit about how it calls them. If there are enough patterns similar to malicious apps, you get a warning.
It will turn itself on, pop up constantly with a dialog that has accept and cancel buttons switched. It is forced.