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

Honestly, almost every third party store is better, if you can get rid of play services for it.

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

Well, Aurora is the only one and it's jalf broken and has a history of lacking development so the situation isn't great but I don't plan to ever get Play Services again ether

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

The only open source one, yes. But since the Apps in the store are proprietary too, i just have both (in my case Aptoide) in Shelter with Tracker Control.

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

I trust Aptoide less than Google so I stick with the apkpure website as backup but thqt's a lot less convinient for sure!

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

The problem is that a lot of apps break without Play Services.

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

All 10 proprietary apps i use don't, including Post, transportation, banking and Twint. Only thing that doesn't work is some ads in the 2 games i have. I don't know, maybe swiss companies are late in the enshitification game?