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Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users (gitlab.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    and distribute the apks on a different website

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    this would be an ideal use case for IPFS, since that returns the same content address even if you upload something completely independently. I.e. no need for specific torrent files, just upload whatever apps you got and you'll automatically be helping existing uploads.
    (with the one caveat that you need to use the same settings, but if everyone uses the defaults that's not a problem)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    There are a bunch of sites like apkmirror etc. that do that but eventually the large ones started enshittifying their service. On apkmirror for example you used to be able to just download the apk's, now they've invented a special "format" that can only be installed through their app. Needless to say that was the end of that, I'm not keen on giving install capability to any more apps than I absolutely have to. (Zero is the ideal answer in case you're wondering, but in practice it's usually one, the system file manager. Any other app can download apk's to /Downloads or go fuck itself.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    now they've invented a special "format" that only can only be installed through their app

    If I'm not mistaken, that's the .apkm bundles right? That's not their own format but another one Google invented to be able to dynamically install only the relevant parts of an app for a specific device type, locale, etc.

    Android can't install this on it's own (I wonder who's fault that is 🙄) but it can be installed via adb or through special installer apps like the Play Store, Aurora or I'm assuming the APKMirror app

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