Aurora Store kicked me to Google Play for an app

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So I wanted to try the zoom earth app my sister uses so I looked up up on Aurora Store and hit install as the only tracker was Google analytics stuff.

Anyway, I waited for it to install and hot the open bitten and it opened up Google play.

No thanks. I didn’t want it that bad.

Anyways, I wondered if this was part of googles efforts working against side loading, etc.

Never seen that before.

Oh yes, I’m not yet using a brax phone. I don’t have microG which maybe been the issue. Idk.

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You can install microg on whatever device you’re using through fdroid or github Github. Maybe that’ll work?

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You need to download from F-Droid for de-googled applications and use Micro-G, otherwise it’s still sending info back to Google.

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Not sure. This is a “latin market only” Chinese phone.
I looked at it once and for a reason I don’t recall I didn’t go through with it.
But I might try. Thanks

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I’ve never had this happen before though.

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Zoom Earth is not open source and is an app “paid” for with ads, so it will not be on F-Droid. Aurora probably just has a dynamic link back to the Google Store for whatever reason. It might work with Micro-G, but probably not because of the advertising revenue depends on tracking you and selling your data.

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Ah. That makes sense.

First time I’ve ever seen that so I knew something was wrong.

I didn’t know it wasn’t open source. I typically just look for apps I’m interested in to see if they’re available there and that is how I figured they were open source.
I guess this is the first one that I was interested in that wasn’t.

Thanks.

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I have had this happen several times, and of course you cannot DL/install the app from the google play web instance.
I have learned two things related to this:

  1. Try again. Try several times over the course of weeks. I have had it work after several failed attempts to DL/install.
  2. I use a somewhat unique app for home security video monitoring, and its a paid app. Of course, I cant DL it through Aurora. I had paid for the app on my previous device. I contacted the developer, explained the situation, and he pointed me at a location of the APK on Github. So sometimes the Developer can be helpful and not totally driven by avarice.
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