[HN Gopher] Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
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       Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
        
       Author : t0bia_s
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-05-27 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago)
        
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       | 2h wrote:
       | If it helps I have a tool for downloading apps. It downloads
       | directly from Google Play:
       | 
       | https://github.com/4cq2/googleplay
        
         | jeroenhd wrote:
         | Risky, putting an @gmail.com address in the README for a tool
         | violating the Google ToS.
         | 
         | Have you ever had to deal with bans because of this tool?
        
           | fpgaminer wrote:
           | It's not their real address. They rotate through a list of
           | their enemy's gmail addresses to get them all banned. /s
        
       | Z7YCx5ieof4Std wrote:
       | And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should never store
       | important things like your email/passwords/passkeys on google
        
       | replygirl wrote:
       | This was predicted in the issues and probably should have gone
       | straight into the readme and website:
       | https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912#note_1...
        
       | tshanmu wrote:
       | What is aurora?
        
         | aftbit wrote:
         | An alternative to Google Play Store for Android users who want
         | to access the normal app ecosystem without running Google Play
         | Services or other Google binaries on their phones. It violates
         | Google's TOS.
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | sashk wrote:
         | From the reddit thread:
         | 
         | > A frontend to google play store
        
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