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  • @Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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    1010 months ago

    I heard that accounts with genuine activity—that is, not created for the sole reason of using Aurora—aren’t targeted. However, I wouldn’t risk it XD

    Google’s also rate limiting anonymous logins. It’s looking very bad.

    • @PantherinaOP
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      210 months ago

      Like, what you would not want to do. Isolating is key.

  • @kixik@lemmy.ml
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    810 months ago

    FYI, the “anonymous” login stopped working since mid last week. There’s an “insecure annonymous” login I haven’t tried. So it seems Google doesn’t like Aurora anymore, :) I use APKGrabber with APKMirror, and though a bit less convenient, it works…

    • @naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml
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      110 months ago

      But Aurora is much safer, as the apk comes directly from the official store.

  • art
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    610 months ago

    This is a bummer. I actually used Aurora to download my paid apps. I would buy on the website and login on my degoogled phone. Now degoogled users will have to just pirate apps they want. So much for supporting small developers.

      • art
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        1010 months ago

        F-Droid is where I get 90% of the applications I need however banking and public transit apps are almost never open source. Once in a while I will buy a game or app that is developed does something that I can’t get from the community.

        • @PantherinaOP
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          310 months ago

          Always annoy your local infrastructure IT devs! It cant be that all these apps dont even have an FDroid repo. They can ship any binary they want its just if they actually want it!

          • 7heo
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            7 months ago

            expired

            • @PantherinaOP
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              110 months ago

              I think having seperate repos sucks but its okay. Droid-ify has preconfigured repos you just have to enable.

      • @PantherinaOP
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        710 months ago

        You need other apps.

        • banking
        • public transport
        • weird stuff
        • vinted
        • spotify
        • some random good but not FOSS apps
        • paid apps (which should actually not be a problem)
        • fu
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          010 months ago

          @Pantherina no, no you don’t. I will say I have been flaburgassted by the number of people on our free and federated network that advertise their love for the freedom denying survailance capitalist “service” of spotify. #FunkWhale4ever

          • @PantherinaOP
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            510 months ago

            No you dont but you have no social life in that case. People sharing playlists with you, looking up music quickly… personally I dont need it, but its a bubble poorly

            • @Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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              10 months ago

              You can still freely access the playlists on https://open.spotify.com/ without an account. And Newpipe has a share function for local playlists. You won’t be missing on a lot, just don’t fall for the consumerist trap and break the social boundaries.

              Edit: You can also access banking services from their respective website. Don’t give them power over you by downloading their apps.

              • @naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml
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                110 months ago

                Here in Brazil, banking services force you into installing spyware in your computer in order to use them, making it a worse option compared to proprietary android apps.

              • @PantherinaOP
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                110 months ago

                Didnt know that! Thats cool.

                Banking TAN apps are nessecary if you somehow want to use your phone and not a weird card reader. The app itself is just comfortable

            • fu
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              310 months ago

              @Pantherina really? 🎵What’s the matter with kids today 🎵

            • fu
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              210 months ago

              @Pantherina I’ve honestly never even heard of sharing playlists through freedom denying proprietary surveillance capitalist software like that. I understand the necessity when sharing personal files, like on #Funkwhale, but I certainly wouldn’t call that a social interaction, let alone a significant portion of one’s social life. Mind explaining it to this old guy?

              • @PantherinaOP
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                110 months ago

                I dont listen to much music. I dont have Gigabytes of music. No real idea how to discover new music of various genres.

                So if people share playlists atleast I need to download the songs. I almost never use that app, but anyways.

                • fu
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                  110 months ago

                  @Pantherina yeah no need to download to listen to Funkwhale, “the cloud” it plays from is just the various servers on the Fediverse

    • @PantherinaOP
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      310 months ago

      For some reason the GPlay website didnt work like that anymore for me.

      Also the accounts will be completely banned, not only rate limited.

    • @kixik@lemmy.ml
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      210 months ago

      Well, if you’re going to use your browser, no need to search on the Google app store, you can search on apkmirror or apkpure (I prefer apkmirror), you can allow your browser to install apps, and then use apkgrabber to keep the apps up to date… At any rate, there are options…

    • fernandu00
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      110 months ago

      Had to install uber yesterday and it worked fine!

  • Gloating Swann
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    310 months ago

    Thanks very much for the heads up on this. I try to get most of my apps from F-Droid, but there are a few I still need to get from Google. In a worst case scenario, like if Aurora can’t fix this or there isn’t something else like Yalp (wait…Yalp?) how will I be able to download gplay store apps? I don’t even have a Google account. If I had used Mrs. Swann’s G account and it got deleted, I’d probably have to spend the rest of the morning picking up all my teeth off the floor…

  • fu
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    210 months ago

    @Pantherina any idea why I can’t access the Piped link? It just spins forever.

    • @PantherinaOP
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      110 months ago

      Interesting. Just use Libredirect I guess

        • @PantherinaOP
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          010 months ago

          Enable javascript for piped. Or use libredirect (addon for firefox) and click on “switch instance”

  • Marius
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    10 months ago

    @Pantherina :)) and I also shut down my google account completely. Together with this, replacing all google apps with more reputable alternatives. Let’s hope that a good alternative for GPlay Store is not far away.

    • @PantherinaOP
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      110 months ago

      This will require all the stupid providers to acually care. And I dont see that yet. But yes, annoy your train companies, banks and more!

      • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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        110 months ago

        I think the earlier recommendation of just using the web browser, preferably a Free Software privacy focused one like the Tor Browser, is a better solution anyway.

        • @PantherinaOP
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          210 months ago

          ?? So you download apps through Tor, using an account linked to your mail and phone number. And you have no update notes

  • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I’m not familiar with Piped. I don’t know if your link won’t load because it uses some kind of non-free javascript that I have disabled on my machine, or if the services is just slow or what. I assume the video you reference is the same as this one accessed through invidious Aurora Users: Proceed with Caution! video

  • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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    110 months ago

    I’m not familiar with Piped. I don’t know if your link won’t load because it uses some kind of non-free javascript that I have disabled on my machine, or if the services is just slow or what. I assume the video you reference is the same as this one accessed through invidious Aurora Users: Proceed with Caution!

    • @PantherinaOP
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      210 months ago

      Pipes is an Invidious instance. For some reason the only one supported for link sharing on Libretube

      • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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        110 months ago

        hmmm…so it’s some kind of fork from Invidious, and not just another instance.

        • @PantherinaOP
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          010 months ago

          Feel free to report in Libretube to change the default instance