I heard that accounts with genuine activity—that is, not created for the sole reason of using Aurora—aren't targeted. However, I wouldn't risk it XD
Google's also rate limiting anonymous logins. It's looking very bad.
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Like, what you would not want to do. Isolating is key.
What do you mean? I'm not following you.
FYI, the "anonymous" login stopped working since mid last week. There's an "insecure annonymous" login I haven't tried. So it seems Google doesn't like Aurora anymore, :) I use APKGrabber with APKMirror, and though a bit less convenient, it works...
But Aurora is much safer, as the apk comes directly from the official store.
This is a bummer. I actually used Aurora to download my paid apps. I would buy on the website and login on my degoogled phone. Now degoogled users will have to just pirate apps they want. So much for supporting small developers.
@arthur @Pantherina what's wrong with just using F-Droid?
F-Droid is where I get 90% of the applications I need however banking and public transit apps are almost never open source. Once in a while I will buy a game or app that is developed does something that I can't get from the community.
Always annoy your local infrastructure IT devs! It cant be that all these apps dont even have an FDroid repo. They can ship any binary they want its just if they actually want it!
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I think having seperate repos sucks but its okay. Droid-ify has preconfigured repos you just have to enable.
You need other apps.
- banking
- public transport
- weird stuff
- vinted
- spotify
- some random good but not FOSS apps
- paid apps (which should actually not be a problem)
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Aurora in anonymous mode is working again. They didn't have enough accounts to spread the load with, and hit rate-limits. They've now added way more accounts.
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912#note_1406935721
Had to install uber yesterday and it worked fine!
sounds like great news!
Thanks very much for the heads up on this. I try to get most of my apps from F-Droid, but there are a few I still need to get from Google. In a worst case scenario, like if Aurora can't fix this or there isn't something else like Yalp (wait...Yalp?) how will I be able to download gplay store apps? I don't even have a Google account. If I had used Mrs. Swann's G account and it got deleted, I'd probably have to spend the rest of the morning picking up all my teeth off the floor...
There are certified third party stores that offer APKs.
Can you recommend some?
Are these considered safe? Do you have to check for updates yourself?
Yes they are clean APKs, i.e. not modified and the original signature is preserved. So they're as safe as the Google Play Store.
Regarding updates, I recommend checking out https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/de.apkgrabber
I do use apkgrabber, but I've always got it from:
https://github.com/hemker/apkgrabber/releases
And it supposed to allow "notification updates" when new versions come out, though it's been on 1.7.0 for quite some time.
Does izzysoft makes sure not to include apks which are already included in the official f-droid repo? It includes many apks already... And I'd rather grab the ones on official f-droid, with some exceptions, like the newpipe repo, but it doesn't include anything else but newpipe...
Izzy removes packages that are mutual with F-droid after a week or so. See here.
And apkgrabber not getting updates isn't crucial if it the app works fine as it is intended.
Thanks for the pointer ! And yes, no worries about apkgrabber not getting updates, I just mentioned it, in case the notification update seemed good enough. I do prefer the f-droid way, whenever available, :)
Thanks! Will do
I'm not familiar with Piped. I don't know if your link won't load because it uses some kind of non-free javascript that I have disabled on my machine, or if the services is just slow or what. I assume the video you reference is the same as this one accessed through invidious Aurora Users: Proceed with Caution!
Pipes is an Invidious instance. For some reason the only one supported for link sharing on Libretube
hmmm....so it's some kind of fork from Invidious, and not just another instance.
Feel free to report in Libretube to change the default instance
@Pantherina :)) and I also shut down my google account completely. Together with this, replacing all google apps with more reputable alternatives. Let's hope that a good alternative for GPlay Store is not far away.
This will require all the stupid providers to acually care. And I dont see that yet. But yes, annoy your train companies, banks and more!
I think the earlier recommendation of just using the web browser, preferably a Free Software privacy focused one like the Tor Browser, is a better solution anyway.
?? So you download apps through Tor, using an account linked to your mail and phone number. And you have no update notes
so did you quit using Android, or is there someway to use android without a google account I was unaware of?
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