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Aurora Store on non rooted devices
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Aurora Store is safe and clean, there's no reason to be concerned about using it.
Although the code for it is good, in order to Aurora Store you must have your own individual Google account. The anonymous account has been rate limited because it was ierating as a shared account for all Aurora users, and Google can't data mine personal info when thousands of people are using one account.
You can install and update all apps that are in the Play Store through Aurora Store, but you must have your own account wirh the password to use Aurora Store.
In my view, I consider Aurora as being dead and gone. It's over, because I am not willing to create a Google account.
I use it all the time without an account.
It's also good for accessing the Store on a device that does not support Google Play services.
What is your substitute atm or in the near future?
For settng up a new phone, the only choices are to get everything from F-Droid or manually downloading the APK files.
Manually from where though, doesn't sound pretty safe
Corrrct, there's no assurance with download APK's from 3rd party websites.
A person could see check if whichever app makes the apk available through their own website or Github, I would trust that, otherwise get everything from F-Droid.