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The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Try out Aurora Store. Just started testing it. Looks and works similar to play store but without adds. You ~~can login with~~ should not use your main google account.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip - Avoid using your main account because it might get blocked permanently by Google.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that, looks pretty nice. Though I'm concerned now trading Google might block your account for using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I'm installing F-Droid I get a security alert about it being developed for a previous android version and that it doesn't include latest privacy updates. How legit is that? I'm downloading the apk throught their official website https://f-droid.org/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's so the app still runs on ancient android versions. Use the Droid-ify client instead if you don't want that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does it have security vulnerabilities?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not exactly. It's possible to make an app run on older versions (select lower minSdk) and yet take advantage of newer features (select higher targetSdk). This one can be easily be fixed by the F-Droid developers like almost all other developers have already.

Droidify is amazing, I'd totally recommend that over the official F-Droid client any time. 👍