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On GrapheneOS, quesrion about moving from Play Store to Aurora Store

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About 25% of my apps are from F-Droid. The rest are from Play Store. I want to use Aurora Store to install apps rather than Play Store.

I have installed Aurora Store. Do I simply remove Play Store from GrapheneOS and it will remove all the Play Store apps at once or do I need to first remove them one by one, then remove Play Store, then install each one via Aurora Store?

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Deys@lemmy.one
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you don’t have to uninstall your installed apps from play store because it has the same signing key with the apps from aurora store.

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animist@lemmy.oneOP
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Oh sweet. Thank you

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Deys@lemmy.one
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you’re welcome!

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OrthoStice@feddit.it
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Be aware that just a few days ago Aurora Store’s anonymous login function suffered a big outage due to Google throttling the “fake” accounts it uses. It’s been working again since a few days, but it’s clear that Google doesn’t love it.

EDIT: as pointed out by @mranderson17 the issue was different. Check his reply to my comment.

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mranderson17@infosec.pub
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According to the developer the issue a couple weeks ago was due to hitting the existing rate limiting because of growing numbers. Not because google was all of a sudden caring more than they used to.

Was there a more recent issue? Things have been working for me since that account pool increase. I see another issue referencing anonymous login rate limiting but that was already happening before and you could request a new account from the account settings page and it would generally resolve it.

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OrthoStice@feddit.it
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I was referring to the issues happening a couple of weeks ago, but it seems like I was mistaken. Thanks for pointing it out.

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CatherineHuffman@burggit.moe
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The solution is to go into your app settings and set Google Play links to open in Aurora. Then do a DuckDuckGo for the apps and when you click the link it will open in Aurora. Not ideal but it’s worked well for me.

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TheWiz@lemm.ee
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Most apps I’ve found haven’t had this issue but I did run into it for the first time not too long ago. I have a separate profile with sandboxed google play for when I absolutely need something that requireres play services

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IIRC apps in Aurora Store are signed with the same keys Google Play uses so the order doesn’t matter. You don’t have to reinstall your apps.

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realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt
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How is Aurora working out for you? I heard that they came across a technical hiccup a week or two ago.

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animist@lemmy.oneOP
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I haven’t had enough time to fully look at it as I only just installed it a few days ago. I’m worried that if I uninstall Play Store and Google Services that the apps will no longer be sandboxed, though I’m not sure this is the case (I know enough to know that I don’t know anything).

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