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.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

how is Aurora less secure than PlayStore directly? GOS devs literally never make sense, and of course they recommend a app store that doesn't even properly label non open/free apps distincly, it is not like they evwr cared about FOSS just vague "security" theater

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

because aurora store isn't developed by a big team of professionals with a massive budget, and aren't getting security audits by other teams of well-funded professionals.

the point isn't that aurora store is insecure, the point is that the play store is VERY secure (it'll just also merrily sell your data to palantir)

[–] F3lis_sylv4@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the aurora store just a wrapper around the play-store using an anonimized account? That is exactly the reason that google can easily block them. They obviously found a way to stop the burner accounts that Aurora makes from accessing the store. It would be equal to making a container for each time you renew the anonymous account.

In other words, unless the aurora app has a backdoor (and I believe it is FOSS, so that should show itself easily), it is as secure as the play store ( which has debatable security, I believe it served malware on several occasions )

But please correct me if I'm wrong

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

AFAIK aurora store is a completely separate implementation, it's certainly not based on the play store in any way since it's open source.

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