<story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kornhole</author><text>This is a major problem for most people with a degoogled phone. Luckily I am using Graphene which provides a sandboxed Google Play services. This means that the only access you need to give it is network access rather than the promiscuous normal access it has to just about everything on your device. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;features#sandboxed-google-play&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;features#sandboxed-google-play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful if others can share here how to extract and install APK&amp;#x27;s outside the Play store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&amp;gt; It would be helpful if others can share here how to extract and install APK&amp;#x27;s outside the Play store.&lt;p&gt;I use APKPure. I have the suspicion that it must be some kind of malware&amp;#x2F;spying operation, but I couldn&amp;#x27;t find any proof so I kept it. Another HN user [1] followed up on a comment on mine on the topic and they didn&amp;#x27;t find anything particularly strange either.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32409557&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32409557&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kornhole</author><text>This is a major problem for most people with a degoogled phone. Luckily I am using Graphene which provides a sandboxed Google Play services. This means that the only access you need to give it is network access rather than the promiscuous normal access it has to just about everything on your device. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;features#sandboxed-google-play&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;features#sandboxed-google-play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful if others can share here how to extract and install APK&amp;#x27;s outside the Play store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fodmap</author><text>Graphene OS is a very interesting option but it only runs in Google&amp;#x27;s Pixel phones for now, so I&amp;#x27;m waiting for the day it could be installed in other devices.</text></comment>