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Alternatives to Aurora store? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi, all!

Aurora has mainly been rendered useless to me, since they started banning/ratelimiting a lot of the accounts in use on that platform.

I mainly stick to FOSS apps, but for instances where that isnt feasible, it was nice to be able to fall back on aurora store.

Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

None that I know of.

What I did was make Aurora Store my default app to open links, search for the desired app on my browser, and then long press and open with external application as explained (in more detail) on this reddit post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

apkmirror.com, sadly aurora might be the only option for the Google store as a app. Otherwise try F-Droid if you haven't already.

[–] Ogygus 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I am using aptoide.

Non libre, ads, most likely spies on me, maybe a miner.

But there's nothing else.

Send help

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why did I picture you crying as you go to install adventure capitalist knowing that the store is injecting malware and mining crypto as you do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apkmirror. Find your app, install it, then let aurora update it as needed.

[–] Ogygus 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Believe it or not, sometimes it doesn't have all the applications i need

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Obtanium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use obtainium already, where applicable. Unfortunately though, most play store apps aren't available on github/codeberg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Google bans new acounts that never used in official playstore before

Use a spare gmail acount that you have also used with playstore

Anonymus logins also get rate limits or get banned

As for alternative

App lounge from /e/ OS uses auroraOSS Gstore api to download from playstore so it's basically like using aurora

Other than that the are Python scripts you could use on termux but those also need a proper gmail account

Same apply to linux/windows programs available

I always used my "normal" google account in Aurora also been using this account with microg since ages Never had an issue I don't care if the account gets banned though.

Maybe appkmirror is the only other "sane" option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Get a number from a service like smspool and create a burner Google account to log in to Aurora Store. It's the only way for Aurora to work reliably.