• Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Not a single app on my phone was installed through Google Play, it’s all Aurora. Guess if apps really do this i’ll just have to stop using them, cause I’m not installing the play store.

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      2 months ago

      I wish i can degoogle my phone but its a few months old so no rom support and its a samsung :<

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        2 months ago

        How is it being a samsung making things worse? I’ve never flashed a samsung phone before so I may be very wrong, but isn’t unlocking the bootloader easy?

        And now that I think about, does samsung have their own system file format or something? Is that the issue?

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          2 months ago

          its bcs they use their own flashing method which got leaked

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            2 months ago

            Omg I completely forgot they had a proprietary flasher, yeah that makes it much worse.

            E: wasn’t there an open source implementation called Heimdall?

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              2 months ago

              E: wasn’t there an open source implementation called Heimdall?

              I Would rather use Heimdall then the leaked odin flasher honestly

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      2 months ago

      Quick question: what is the advantage of using Aurora to get apps instead of the Play Store?

      I have Aurora but i don’t understand that, afaik both use the same APKs and can update interchangeably?

      At first I thought Aurora remove some of the app’s tracking beacons but that’s not the case.

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        2 months ago

        At least for me, Play Store impulsively updates itself. I would even say that some apps got updated even though I’d disabled auto updates.

        I installed Aurora and disabled Play Store altogether. So I update apps manually whenever I want to.