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Is APKPure Safe? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Aurora Store is way too unreliable and is nearly unusable. I have been using APKMirror so far and while it is okay, it is somewhat annoying that Obtainium can not directly download from there whereas it can with APKPure. I wanted to know the security level of APKPure in comparison to APKMirror.

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a workaround for the rate limiting:

Open the app settings for Aurora Store, go to the Open by default settings and add the supported links.

(If Google Play is on your phone you may need to go remove the supported links in its settings)

Use your browsers to search play.google.com for the app you want. From the app page use the Share to app function and it should open it in Aurora Store.

This is what I do sometimes. But, for the past 3 weeks Aurora Store has been behaving...

[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Still doesn't work for app updates. I can't even connect to Aurora most of the time. Maybe it is a ProtonVPN issue.