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Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
- 2h 3y agoIf it helps I have a tool for downloading apps. It downloads directly from Google Play: https://github.com/4cq2/googleplay https://github.com/4cq2/googleplay
- jeroenhd 3y agoRisky, putting an @gmail.com address in the README for a tool violating the Google ToS. Have you ever had to deal with bans because of this tool?
- madeofpalk 3y agoHow do you commit with those messages? Does your IDE automatically commit on each file change?
- 2h 3y agojust laziness - I usually do `git commit -v`
- tshanmu 3y agoWhat is aurora?
- sashk 3y agoFrom the reddit thread: > A frontend to google play store
- aftbit 3y agoAn alternative to Google Play Store for Android users who want to access the normal app ecosystem without running Google Play Services or other Google binaries on their phones. It violates Google's TOS.
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- madeofpalk 3y agoI presume it requires you to log in with your Google username and password, and not via oauth?
- gavaw 3y agoI have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?
- madeofpalk 3y agoGiven how important a Google account can be, I think it's a pretty poor idea to enter your credentials into random third party software. I don't believe you can authenticate Gmail in email clients with your account password any more - you must create an 'app specific password'.
- hedora 3y agoWell, as an app store, it pretty much has complete access to your degoogled phone, but (until recently) it defaulted to a pool of shared google burner accounts that were only used to download software.
- Z7YCx5ieof4Std 3y agoAnd that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should never store important things like your email/passwords/passkeys on google
- CharlesW 3y agoAlso, do not use your main Google account to violate Google's Terms of Service.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoYou are assuming a lot if you think Google won't action "related" or "nearby" Google accounts.
- suddenclarity 3y agoNot that I would be surprised but are there any real examples of this? I've considered setting up separate accounts for things such as email to reduce the risk of losing it in a random ban.
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoGoogle "google bans entire company". Plenty of examples.
- emodendroket 3y agoIsn’t a Google Apps organization a different scenario?
- dingledork69 3y agoThere's been many stories of entire companies being banned from Google services due to their affiliation with a freelancer who broke Google's rules years ago for a different client.
- replygirl 3y agoThis was predicted in the issues and probably should have gone straight into the readme and website: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912#note_1405907310 https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912#note_1...
- smnrg 3y agoIt may help to just use Obtainium to download/track from APKPure and APKMirror. It’s open source and can also get binaries straight from sources like GitHub and GitLab—or even F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Mullvad, Signal, Steam, Telegram, VLC, Neutron. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
- 2h 3y agoonly works for Open-Source Apps
- commoner 3y agoNot quite, Obtainium supports APKMirror (update tracking only) and APKPure, both of which primarily host proprietary apps.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIn general, how trustworthy are APK sites like ApkPure?
- dingledork69 3y agoI've grabbed them in the past for decompiling games and never encountered anything odd. The ads on the website are horrendous though, which I figured was their main source of revenue.
- j16sdiz 3y agoApkMirror have a very good track record. They depends on user upload and verify the signatures with the official version.
- commoner 3y agoAPKMirror was created by the same person who started the Android Police blog, which gives it more credibility. > What is the connection between APKMirror and Android Police? > In 2010, Artem Russakovskii started an Android blog called Android Police as well as its parent company Illogical Robot LLC. AP quickly grew into one of the leading Android sites on the web, and in 2014, Artem founded APKMirror as a sister property to help host the large amount of APKs AndroidPolice frequently referenced in its news coverage. > In mid-2021, Android Police was acquired by Valnet Inc. APKMirror remained independent and is still run by Artem Russakovskii and Illogical Robot LLC. https://www.apkmirror.com/faq/ https://www.apkmirror.com/faq/ > our sister site APKMirror https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/apkmirror-installer-for-android-now-in-public-beta-lets-you-install-app-bundles-and-apks/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/apkmirror-installer... I haven't had any issues with APKMirror yet.
- Andrex 3y agoFrom the most recent comments, it seems like this is resolved and it also had nothing to do with Google?
- FridayoLeary 3y agoThey are weaponising their Account service to protect profits from playstore and Android. Does this not run afoul of any laws?
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- solarkraft 3y agoThis is why I'd rather use third party APK websites (apkmirror appears to be affiliated with xda) than log into Aurora with my account.
- flas9sd 3y agoAndroid APK security model is pretty apt for using mirrors - what you need is a trusted directory of known-good mapping of appid to signing developer key fingerprint to cover for trust on first use when installing - plus handling key revocation. Mirrors publish the fingerprints, but it's unclear what verification they applied. Looking at history won't cover revocation, but it's already something. Certificate transparency logs could handle apks instead of domains too. I understand the appeal of Aurora and similar - you let Google handle search, malware takedown and download traffic, but then you're also up to be cut off at no notice.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoMan, I so need to get my email changed over to a custom domain so I'm not vulnerable to an account deletion.
- yawnxyz 3y agoFor those who don't want to host their own email, but want need a non-Google (and non-Hotmail ahem) account for password recovery and problems like getting perma-banned from Google: what should we use? Happy to pay a small amount. I heard Fastmail is good?
- replygirl 3y agoall my friends off google swear by proton
- barbazoo 3y agoFastmail is solid.
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoHappy Fastmail customer here.
- californical 3y agoI’ve been using Fastmail and it’s fantastic. Their customer support is top quality if you need help, but I basically never think about it. I use Fastmail and it just works with no effort, so I love it.
- asimops 3y agoPersonally i am really happy with mailbox.org German provider that tries to be a gsuite replacement. I cannot know challenges that come from non eu payments, but it is a prepaid model.
- Semaphor 3y agoI'll also agree with fastmail. In addition to great support (which I only needed once in many years), their interface is also much much faster than "how about 5gb of badly written JS"-gmail (yes, a bit of hyperbole, but Gmail is slow compared to fastmail)
- Lexarius 3y agoI've got protonmail connected to a personal domain (in case I ever want to switch providers and keep my address), works fairly well.
- _8j50 3y agoYou know whom I don't have to fight tooth and nail with? Apple. Yeah, shit, but not openly hostile against me. It feels like breaking up with an abusive ex when I discarded all things google.so much hostility and drama. My iPhone is good enough to use the 3 apps I want without any drama. With Google they always do some shady shit and I was like "oh well, this is the best I can do". Can't wait till i stop using smartphones entirely.
- fjkccbkkj 3y agoThey way all consumer OSes are moving.... Do you think the next thing will be any better?!?
- pierat 3y agoMost linuxes (minus Ubuntu) are already user friendly. The only time I had to fight with my Linux computer was de-SNAP-ing it cause it would do forced updates and unstoppable growls. And fuck emulating Windows.
- _8j50 3y agoI have no idea but at least I have good hardware/software for now. My opinion is, vendor locked in architectures like android or iOS are like the proprietary Unixes of the 80s and 90s and need to die.
- api 3y agoApple seems to have entered a phase where they are mostly just quietly decent. They have some bad things like iCloud and some good things like their hardware (mostly), but agree that they are not hostile to their users and don’t seem to be breaking their stuff too badly. Hopefully they won’t go more into advertising. Anything the advertising industry touches turns into toxic garbage. Ad revenue is poisonous to any other focus for a business.
- lvass 3y agoLast time I checked, even transfering photos from an iphone to another device was complicated.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoWell, theres apkpure, apkmirror and aptoide. Guess that's what I'm working with from now on. Does anyone have any idea what I should do about banking apps? Do banks keep downloadable APKs on their websites or something like that?
- londgine 3y agohow can you verify that the app is genuine?
- friend_and_foe 3y agoI'm not sure. Check app signatures? But I've got signture spoofing allowed, and also what canonical record can you reference ebaides google play? It's a conundrum for sure.