For me anonymous use of Aurora never really worked, and with a google account it still works.
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
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Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#22GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users. For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else.
Doesn’t Google make it very hard to create an account tied to nothing (no phone or alt email)?
Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Play store works just fine on GrapheneOS. All of play services run in a sandbox. You can install the Play store from the GrapheneOS App Store. In fact I'm pretty sure the GrapheneOS folks advise against Aurora Store, etc.
Yeah, was confused. I'm on GrapheneOS and don't even know what Aurora is.
It's an alternative client app for the google store.
Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#24GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users. For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else.
Doesn’t Google make it very hard to create an account tied to nothing (no phone or alt email)?
If you create it on a stock Pixel device the phone requirement gets dropped.
Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#25GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users. For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else.
> a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else. Isn't that pretty much impossible? You need a phone number for verification, which effectively ties it to that phone number.
Accounts created on stock Pixels don’t require phone numbers.
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Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you create it on a stock Pixel device the phone requirement gets dropped.
It’s undoubtedly tied to the phone with is tied to the owner
Well yeah. But if you care about anonymity on that level there are ways around that (i.e. buying in cash and creating the account using public WiFi).
Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#29So an app that uses an unofficial API broke when that API changed?
Not news nor "blocking".
Re: Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
#30> Aurora uses burner account for anonymous login. looks like their account pool is flagged
This seems like it was destined to get banned somehow... and I don't think it means that the store itself is blocked, just the pool of accounts they (ab)use.