I’ve long predicted that due to the government’s war against pirate IPTV, we would see IPTV aggregators be targeted for removal.

This morning, I had to factory reset my nVidia Shield because the home screen was not coming up. When I searched for IPTV Extreme in the Play Store, it was nowhere to be found.

So I decided to do a web search for it, and when I found a link to its entry on the Play Store, I clicked on the link, and I was greeted with a message that it was not found.

Fortunately, I found a patched APK which works. However, I would not be surprised if Google uses Play Protect to remove it from my Shield.

The only way to disable the Play Protect kill switch is to disable Play Protect. However, I would not be surprised if Google were to remove the ability to disable Play Protect, which would mean that the kill switch would be impossible to evade.