Let me guess, just like the FallOut 2 DMCA a few weeks ago, which Bethesda rescinded after learning about it, some third party that uses AI to search for DMCA violations filed yet another false takedown. Again. Most likely without Microsoft even knowing about it.
EDIT: Its the exact same third party as the one that Bethesda overturned after learning about it earlier. I expect this one to be overturned soon as well.
Ah, yes, someone's made a business out of hunting for dmca violations... using an ai based watchdog... and because dmca is "shoot first ask questions later", that makes disruption easy and remedy hard.
Ugh, feels like the Allumeria situation all over again, Microslop bots were behind that one as well...Only one way to take care of that is to double tap those Slopbots.
Aurora Store is good enough for most. It's still on Google Play, but you're not using the Google Play app and you can even pick which version and see an Exodus tracking report before you download.
Rather than finding the same app elsewhere, though, you should be looking for alternative apps on FDroid and the like. Unfortunately though FDroid is terrible for searching for apps, you just kind of have to "know" about the app you're looking for first, somehow..
I would recommend a different front end for fdroid repo like droidify, neo store etc. I haven't used official fdroid app in ages but the 2 above are pretty good. Has many categories to choose from and search works fairly decent as well.
Neo store uses absurdly high amount of system resources. The app itself is laggy, and its quite heavy in background. Droidify is very lightweight compared to neo store.
I have F-Droid and it's good. I tried Aurora Store but it didn't seem to have a search function, just lists of a few apps from random categories. Almost reminded me of browsing Netflix.
The easiest solutions which work for me is to use open source alternatives, which can be downloaded directly from developer, use web version of the app, like i do with google documents, or pirate it if it is not available in your region of the store.
I just cheked, you can literally search "minecraft free" on play store, and find countless minecraft clones there. Why wouldnt googel and microslopt take down this games?
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