Hi, all!

Aurora has mainly been rendered useless to me, since they started banning/ratelimiting a lot of the accounts in use on that platform.

I mainly stick to FOSS apps, but for instances where that isnt feasible, it was nice to be able to fall back on aurora store.

Any suggestions?

  • Yuumi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    apkmirror.com, sadly aurora might be the only option for the Google store as a app. Otherwise try F-Droid if you haven’t already.

  • jacktherippah@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    Get a number from a service like smspool and create a burner Google account to log in to Aurora Store. It’s the only way for Aurora to work reliably.

  • ᓰᕵᕵᓍ@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Google bans new acounts that never used in official playstore before

    Use a spare gmail acount that you have also used with playstore

    Anonymus logins also get rate limits or get banned

    As for alternative

    App lounge from /e/ OS uses auroraOSS Gstore api to download from playstore so it’s basically like using aurora

    Other than that the are Python scripts you could use on termux but those also need a proper gmail account

    Same apply to linux/windows programs available

    I always used my “normal” google account in Aurora also been using this account with microg since ages Never had an issue I don’t care if the account gets banned though.

    Maybe appkmirror is the only other “sane” option.

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    1 year ago

    I am using aptoide.

    Non libre, ads, most likely spies on me, maybe a miner.

    But there’s nothing else.

    Send help

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      1 year ago

      Why did I picture you crying as you go to install adventure capitalist knowing that the store is injecting malware and mining crypto as you do it