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  • harry_balzac@lemmy.world
    91·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t heard of Aurora before. I’m guessing it’s similar to F-Droid? Just extract and install the APK?

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      It’s a wrapper over Google Play not F-Droid. Much nicer interface, you can filter for things like ads/paid/GSF, you can bypass some regional blocks, you can login with Google accounts or use it anonymously etc.

        • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          9 months ago

          Never happened to me, but technically your account can get banned using Aurora since it’s against the TOS. Also i mostly use aurora for privacy, so an different account only to download apps is a good idea. (Ideally you should even use the anonymous feature, but i had some stability problems with that so i switched to a throwaway account)

      • Samsy@lemmy.ml
        7·
        9 months ago

        I would add the exodus feature, which shows a list of trackers from an app.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      61·
      9 months ago

      Aurora Store is a play store wrapper.

      Aurora Droid is an F-droid wrapper.

      I use Aurora droid. It is much better than just Fdroid. Search works well, updates are easy, and what is that? App pictures and icons actually load?? 😂 It generally is nicer to use than F-droid and you can add many different repositories to it including custom ones

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    BTW could anyone get it working on GrapheneOS? It crashes when I start typing a search request. (I’ve not tried the new version yet, but older versions installed from f-droid crashed.)

    • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      9 months ago

      You might be blocking access to a specific Google Play Store domain or IP. I use Rethink firewall and experienced this when I was blocking a lot of Google’s domains. I am using Lineage OS.