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[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Not a single app on my phone was installed through Google Play, it's all Aurora. Guess if apps really do this i'll just have to stop using them, cause I'm not installing the play store.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Quick question: what is the advantage of using Aurora to get apps instead of the Play Store?

I have Aurora but i don't understand that, afaik both use the same APKs and can update interchangeably?

At first I thought Aurora remove some of the app's tracking beacons but that's not the case.

[–] OutsiderInside@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

At least for me, Play Store impulsively updates itself. I would even say that some apps got updated even though I'd disabled auto updates.

I installed Aurora and disabled Play Store altogether. So I update apps manually whenever I want to.

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