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AuroraStore uses a pool of burner Google Play Store accounts to facilitate anonymous downloads. This is what happens when those burner accounts get flagged.
by iAMkenough 2mo ago
AuroraStore uses a pool of burner Google Play Store accounts to facilitate anonymous downloads. This is what happens when those burner accounts get flagged.
- ranger_danger 2mo agoHow does one even create a new google account in $current_year without requiring phone verification or worse?
- megagpt2 2mo agoYou could suck it up and do the phone number verification, it usually costs around $5 for a phone number. Or you could go through the android phone sign-up process which doesn't require one. Buy a cheap android phone and keep resetting it and making a new account each time. Or you could buy an account on the grey web from someone who already did this. Should be under $2. If you are really into this you could become a phone company and own a whole block of phone numbers.
- ranger_danger 2mo agoThe whole point of avoiding the verification in my case is for privacy reasons... I don't want google or anyone else tracking what I do through the use of an account. > Or you could go through the android phone sign-up process which doesn't require one This is worse IMO because now the number is associated with that device forever. And unless I'm willing to risk my account to compromise from a future owner of the same number OR device, I must now keep both... forever. > grey web I don't want to give them my info either, nor have my account associated with sketchy individuals. > you could become a phone company I do own DID blocks but this is unhelpful because google's verification specifically requires SMS over real mobile numbers, and I'm not interested in becoming an MVNO or cellular carrier.
- megagpt2 2mo agoBad news - Google doesn't need an account to track your app downloadsm Perhaps you'd be more interested in creating a website that downloads all the apps from the play store using burner accounts and makes them easily anonymously accessible.
- ranger_danger 1mo agoGrapheneOS is not sending app downloads to Google that happen outside of Google's apps, which I don't use. And there are other ways to download APKs from the Play Store; EFF even makes their own tool for it, and there are third-party archive sites and alternative non-Google app stores as well.
- Markoff 2mo agobtw. you can get prepaid physical SIM cards in Czechia for free send by mailbox, you just need some available mailbox wheere you can pick it up, like put Donald Duck sticker on your mailbox and address it to Donald Duck I used android sign up process to create my other dummy account I use in TV only for smarttube and app updates, that seems like great option if it still works
- ErenayDev 2mo agoI'm using my Proton account in my phone and in play store. now i tried adding my proton account in AuroraStore, and it worked flawlessly. so my question: why AuroraStore uses google accounts instead of another providers?
- g-b-r 2mo agoWhat the hell are you talking about? Proton accounts to access the Play Store?
- ErenayDev 2mo agowhat happened? if you're trying to say that this is "impossible", its not. But if you're trying to say about privacy, that account I tried is another one of mine. im not stupid to use my primary proton account in my phone.
- g-b-r 2mo agoWhat are you talking about??? How could an account from a completely different company let you login to Google's Play Store??? You probably mean a Google account that uses your Proton mail address?