Would apkmirror.com be a good temporary replacement for Aurora?

Ssupersonic · May 27, 2023

User2288 what other sites are you thinking of?

UUser2288 · May 27, 2023

APKpure
Aptoide

[deleted] · May 27, 2023

I only used aurora for netflix.
I now use apkmirror. The signature of the app is the same, so I consider it a reliable alternative, for troubleshooting in my case.

Ssupersonic · May 30, 2023

Apparently F-droid was a fork of Aptoide. It sounds..usable if you're vigilant; users can create their own stores so there can be multiple versions of the same app available. It reminds me of the AUR or GURU. Piracy has been an issue on their platform, and they had a breach in 2020.

matchboxbananasynergy · May 30, 2023

Aurora Store has a new version signed by the developer (4.2.3) and it works currently, for those who want to use it.

NNewUser · May 31, 2023

matchboxbananasynergy did not find it in their website and the latest f-droid version is 4.2.2. How can I get the 4.2.3 ?

matchboxbananasynergy · May 31, 2023

NewUser https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/releases

NNewUser · May 31, 2023

matchboxbananasynergy thank you

[deleted] · May 31, 2023

Hi, why use aurora when we have the real play store on GrapheneOS?

DDeletedUser115 · May 31, 2023

[deleted] Please see my comment in https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/5286-temp-google-play-store-account-for-multiple-phones/5

[deleted] · May 31, 2023

DeletedUser115 If your consumer applications embed Google libraries, whether you have the sandbox play service installed or not makes no difference because the applications will always have Google libraries.

DDeletedUser115 · May 31, 2023

[deleted] Correct, they would still have Google libraries. What makes a difference though is whether such libraries are able to communicate with Play Services or not. Practically this affects how much data Google would be able to collect from your phone.

Ccsis01 · May 31, 2023

[deleted] Because it depends on a bunch of other gcrap, and is itself untrustworthy.

[deleted] · May 31, 2023

Is Aurora trustworthy? Honestly?

UUphill1945 · May 31, 2023

[deleted] yes 😮‍💨🙄

UUser2288 · May 31, 2023

[deleted] Hi, why use aurora when we have the real play store on GrapheneOS?

Because I don't want the playstore on my system and I don't want my app instances associated with a unique google account.

[deleted] Is Aurora trustworthy? Honestly?

Is Play store?

What's your definition of trust worthy?

I consider Aurora more trust worthy than Play. Maybe less secure, but still more trust worthy.

[deleted] · Jun 1, 2023

Personally, my logic is to avoid multiplying trust.
As Aurora acts as a kind of proxy, I prefer to go directly through google, more secure, than to add a third party.

The fact that aurora didn't get an update for a year and then had difficulty applying an update, other than on F-droid, leaves me very doubtful about the trust I could place in it.