I noticed these intermittently, but retrying later has seemed to resolve the updates.

Ah shit, I'm getting the same. Never seen this error before.

Looks a lot like an issue, more than the reality that the title is suggesting?

click-bait?

Misleading title. After reading the linked Gitlab discussion it's more likely a backend change from Google side. Aurora does use burner account but early reports seem to suggest they are not flagged or rate limited.

It appears Google tries to degrade alternative application stores to just another app offered through the Play Store, and therefore subject to Google's policies (including an annual $5,000 fee for policy and security reviews). So I wouldn't be surprised this is very much intentional: as to force application stores through a channel controlled by Google, to technically allow competition (at Google's discretion) while ultimately killing "side-loading" through other sources.

Oh I was wondering why Aurora had stopped working

How is it misleading?

I might be cooked

Google actively blocking Aurora Store would be much worse than them simply changing their backend. The latter can likely be quickly resolved while the former might lead to a cat and mouse game, where it gets increasingly difficult for Aurora Store to continue to work.

And what makes you think it's the latter and not the former?

Well looks like its time to start making alternatives or scream for Linux to come out with a phone.

Well, I don't Aurora on my Graphene phone anyway.

Is this sealioning? 🫴🦋

I just checked and get the same error.

LOL yes, anyone asking you questions you can't answer about the shit you're saying is "sealioning".

Just worked for me. So maybe they implemented a workaround.

I’m out of breath by this point. You want to scream now of all times?

I don't use GrapheneOS anyway so fuck them, right? Why should I care about others when it does not directly impact me?

It is not always immediate. I faced the issue only after 2 successful updates. Definitely looks more like rate limiting with minor response change than a block as OP is claiming. Will have to wait and see until someone can properly inspect it.

Seems like clickbait but the graphene devs recommend against aurora store in favor of using a second profile with the sandboxed play store

Set yourself up for pain, feel the expireince. We all make choices. Ive prepared.

mine is working so far. ab testing the breaking change?

The Play Store requires a Google account. Using a second profile is extremely inconvenient.

all updates were failing to download here.

rebooted the device, and i just tested one update right from the app's details page and that went on ok. will try the others from the update ui later, after the battery gets charged up.

edit to update: broken. updates not coming in, nor are they one-at-a-time from the app pages, either.

Remember when Microsoft was forced to give a "select your web browser" prompt when setting up a Windows computer?

Quaint times, those were....

Yup can confirm. Some apps return this error (example tutamail and windscribe vpn). Fix it by downloading the apk in fdroid or github/ gitlab directly.

I was wondering cant we just scrape Play Store and distribute the apks on a different website? most apks has checksums so we will know nobody has changes the apk

Graphene recommending this at all is extremely sus. My objective of using your operating system is to avoid giving Google any information I possibly can. Don't know why they always recommend using Google shit in a sandbox like those packets aren't still coming from my IP.

congratulations on your study of the blade.

Its not sus. They're just hyper-aware of security. And Aurora is just not terribly secure. Its just that you're now choosing between privacy and maximum security. And I prioritize privacy, personally.

They pretty much only recommend Accrescent.

The thing is, it's already been answered. The conclusion was made based on reading the gitlab discussion. 🤷‍♂️ I didn't read that myself but maybe try doing that if you're curious. 😉🫶

Any experience woth Apkpure app? Apk files downloaded straight from them.

and distribute the apks on a different website

Or with distributed technologoes such as torrents. Then it's cheaper to operate any required servers.

I agree. Specifically, it's privacy AND freedom (free software development model).

If these two are against maximum security, GrapheneOS consistently chooses security. Which is unfortunate for me, because I would consistently choose freedom. (Especially due to long-term considerations.)

It's on fdroid.

I recommend blocking play store.

That's insecure

Still blocked. Europe, Wednesday 7 AM.

The thing is, the conclusion is not going to be in any discussion outside of a Google internal chat or meeting. We know what happened, we don't know why it happened, or what it means.

So that is why my Aurora store have been having trouble latley :(

Maybe a gorilla in the woods found a Google employees laptop and implemented the change. We will never know unless we go into the jungle.

Same error here. Fun times coming...

And also if a server goes down there are still dozens of seeders ready to seed you the files

Linux phones work, but they depend on many Google Android apps to be daily usable by normal people.

You can disregard their recommendation if you wish, I do sometimes. If they were here, I imagine they'd say they don't see privacy and security as contradicting each other, just that there are different threat models. I think they subscribe to the idea that not everyone is going to be sufficiently informed in order to make a rational judgement, so instead they default to lowering potential risk. They do value accessibility for the tech illiterate as well.

Honestly, at this point we just need alternatives to some of these Google apps in general.

Classic Graphene users, making this all about themselves. This hurts Aurora users, period.

Classic Graphene users, making this all about themselves. This hurts Aurora users, period.

Edit: I ran into the same issue. For now, refreshing the anonymous Aurora account solved it.

I used APKPure for a good two years without much issue. Just felt very scammy with all the ads and it felt complicated because I was never sure which version to pick.
Switched to Aurora (recommended officially by Huawei) and haven't had a single issue ever since. Can even download beta versions now.

I'm not having any issues today either, kinda wondering what's going on to be honest.

P.S. Still using Apkpure for Roblox / Fortnite / Brawlstars (can't remember which) on the tablet, for the kids, and that's pretty much it.

What alternative are you going to make? My bank only publishes their app on Play Store. I can either use Play Store app or Aurora to install it. You think that if you build alternative, open source store my bank will publish their app there? You think any bank will? F-Droid already exists, do you see any banks publishing their apps there? Do you see any of them dong Linux version of their apps?

The alternative here would be some other corporation building independent app store and getting everyone to publish their apps there. Amazon tried that many years ago. Maybe Samsung could do it now. It's definitely not something we can make.

Time to install it. They wouldn't block it if it sucked right?