sandboxed google play woes

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Does anyone else use the google play store sandboxed? I recently made a throwaway account to set up play store but just feel very uneasy after all the progress I made. I was using droid-ify but was worried that the app updates from izzyondroid and fdroid could be malicious? maybe I am thinking about it to hard. Really don't like having google again even with a throwaway account.

MetropleX

[deleted] I use it and with my 'legacy' personal account for my own reasons. However your concern is why I placed it in a secondary user behind a VPN. Only thing BigG knows is my phone model. However I can put it at rest 95% of the time thanks to the majority of my daily usage not requiring anything from them.

Anything that does need it can be done in minutes in that user then put back to rest. Keeps my mind at rest too. However using them in the main is fine so long as you own your permissions usage and grant only what is necessary. They are after all, isolated like any other app in that profile. They and BigG only get what what you give.

evalda

Play Store is, honestly, more secure and trustworthy way to install apps...

But if you don't want to use Play Store for app distribution for whatever reason, you can download it from developer's website (GitHub or else). After first install, updates are checked against the original dev cert so you can use any method to update app with reasonable assurance that updates are genuine