Aurora in anonymous mode is working again. They didn’t have enough accounts to spread the load with, and hit rate-limits. They’ve now added way more accounts.
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912#note_1406935721
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…
But Aurora is much safer, as the apk comes directly from the official store.
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.
@arthur @Pantherina what’s wrong with just using F-Droid?
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.
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!
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)
@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
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
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.
@Tatar_Nobility @Pantherina or you could help your neighbor by contribuiting and partcipating in a federerated FLOSS servcie like #FunkWhale instead.
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.
@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?
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.
@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.
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!
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.
?? So you download apps through Tor, using an account linked to your mail and phone number. And you have no update notes
@Pantherina any idea why I can’t access the Piped link? It just spins forever.
Interesting. Just use Libredirect I guess
@Pantherina huh?
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!
Pipes is an Invidious instance. For some reason the only one supported for link sharing on Libretube
hmmm…so it’s some kind of fork from Invidious, and not just another instance.
Feel free to report in Libretube to change the default instance
