Ads upon ads upon ads!
You’re still using it, so they’re gonna keep doing it.
Aside from the ads, you also have to sift through all of the crappy clones and shovelware to actually find something useful.
This was my exact experience a couple of days ago when I was trying to find a CSV viewer.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/
F-droid for open source apps, Aurora Store for all the Play Store apps. You’re welcome :)
It is. Those fake accounts that Aurora Store uses stop working randomly. I learned the hard way to never rely on Aurora Store ever again and just use sandboxed Play Store on GrapheneOS.
You can use aurora with your own account
I dont install apps too often, so i just use a new throwaway when I download a new apo
In my experince, kind of. You can log in with your Google account and it works fine, but that negates most of the privacy benefits. Alternatively, only the search is broken with anonymous login, so you can set Aurora as the app to open play.google.com links and open them from your browser and it downloads and updates like normal.
Yikes. That is horrible. How can an upper level exec look at that and say: Yes! That’s exactly what I was looking for!
they don’t care, as long as the users are captured and unable to switch to something else. and unlike with iOS, they have the figleaf of side-loading to protect themselves, even though 90% of users won’t pursue it. so pressure from the EU will be minimal even as the user experience continues to degrade
I try to avoid using the official app as much as possible, usually manage with Aurora store, thats why it stood out to me how bad it has become of late when I just went to update my game. Not shocking, but disheartening.
