The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

This is exactly why the EU's Digital Markets Act exists. And why it needs teeth. Google disabling Nextcloud's all-files access on Android, while quietly letting its own apps and big corporate players keep it, isn't about "security". It's about control. Nextcloud is a European, privacy-first alternative built on open standards and that can be fully aligned with GDPR requirements. Blocking its core functionality while favouring your own services is a textbook abuse of platform power. Android was supposed to be open, but moves like this show it (at least the Play Services verison) is just another walled garden. If the EU is serious about digital sovereignty and fair competition, this is the kind of behaviour that must be stopped. Otherwise, no European tech, no matter how compliant, open, or user-friendly, stands a chance.

Punishing Google for preventing apps from reading all your private data at a whim is quite a take to involve EU for.

Without this enforcement, malware games and apps like Facebook were just uploading your photos and scanning their EXIF locations under the guise of "needing all access".

And as we found out in existing topic, the better privacy preserving APIs exist, Nextcloud just doesn't want to use them.

But, I want that. With all the responsibilities that come with that.

Why can't I grant an app that permission? If Google discovers that an app with that permission is abusing what they are doing with that permission, then revoke their developer account! Delete the app from existing phones and inform the users that the developers could not be trusted! App store death penalty!

It's difficult to understand why there is any other reason other than maintaining their privleged position on the device to deny users this ability. Put a persistent notification in the status tray: "These apps have full access:", etc.