Tips for a new user?

sumactea

My fear since I started this journey is that I wouldn't be doing enough and stress out over having too few or too many profiles. Not having the right apps in the right profiles. Did I set the correct permissions on ALL my apps? How would I know?

Fortunately on iOS I've already started some habits to reduce my data footprint. Logging into "app" websites with Brave instead of downloading the app. Using a VPN. Email aliases. But you're limited on what you can do on iOS.

Best of luck!

Dumdum

Hb1hf Obtanium is an option, but again, only for open-source apps.

I mean, technically not true. Any app can make APKs available through a website and Obtainium can use it. Very few apps besides open source apps do this however, instead they rely on GPlay.

Hb1hf

OMG!!

DO NOT INSTALL WHATSAPP FROM PLAYSTORE/AURORA IF YOU DON'T HAVE PLAY SERVICES INSTALLED!

WhatsApp suspends accounts for that. You need to download the APK from whatsapp.com instead!

@Dumdum s reply reminded me of this. You can use Obtanium to download WA's apk, but I don't think it will update.

AlphaElwedritsch

Hb1hf on my other phone I'm using DOS without microG and/or any play services and installed WA via Aurora store without any issues

vagr

Hb1hf Thx for this information, didn't know. Have only used the APK from WhatsApp.

twitheatrophonic

Hb1hf it does update

rellhom

Hb1hf

this makes me wonder, since Meta, if this could also follow for instagram and or facebook

would be lame to lose an important old account for something like this (but yeah it totally sucks that Meta is like this)

Hb1hf

AlphaElwedritsch I guess this means microg successfully fools WA. But in GOS you either have GPS or no GPS.
But even if it works for some people, there are many cases of people in this and other fora whose accounts have been suspended. So why take the risk if the cost to mitigate is basically zero? You just download it once from the website, then the app store will update it.

AlphaElwedritsch

my comment was purely informal without judgment

Hb1hf

AlphaElwedritsch oh mine too!

But this thread is to help people who are just starting with GOS, so I thought it was important to reiterate that rhere's a way that's guaranteed not to get them a headache, even if the regular way is not 100% assured to get them suspended.

Hb1hf

twitheatrophonic

Oh that's great!

Blastoidea

Put as little on your phone as possible.

Use Molly or Signal. (always)

0j923jd023j

Hb1hf Aurora apparently doesn't verify apk signatures

other than this, there are other apps that dont run on the phone unless it is verified to be downloaded to be from the google playstore.

i had a banking app not work because i downloaded it from the aurora store

Hb1hf

0j923jd023j are you sure it's not a Google integrity API issue?