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I found the weirdest way to bypass the Google Play Integrity Check (lemmy.world)
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I'll go straight to the point, so many phones (aside from pixel and other minor brands) offer 2 app stores, Google Play Store and another store by the vendor(Samsung has the Galaxy Store, for Huwaei its the Gallery App Store, and for Amazon its the Amazon App store...) And these apps don't rely on the Google Play Services neither do the apps they offer

I own a Xiaomi Redmi and I've only tested it with some games that refused to run without the Google Play Store and it works!

This only requires you to not have a Pixel phone though, which is kinda ironic tbh

I have not tried it with banking apps although I doubt it'd work

Idk what's crazier between finding a safe way to install GPS required apps or finding a utility to those bloatware

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

For anyone who got hopeful this is not a bypass for Play Integrity Check. OP is just installing apps from a different app store ment for phones which are restricted from using American tech. Due to this limitation all the app developers know if anyone is installing apps from those stores they maynot have Google Play Services example Huawei. So those app developers themselves are bypassing checking for Play Integrity Check.

If it was the case just of using different app store Aurora would've also worked. But it doesn't because Aurora provides exact same APK as the google play store unlike the other app stores OP mentioned