I have a small friends group that uses Aurora, maybe to support them I should create an anonymous google account we all could use. Sharing a password in this group would be cool. An authenticator app might work better.
I have never used a google account with Aurora.
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Well, I think its better idea to “donate” anonymous google account to their pool (check the link henry shared) (you have to generate some kind of token and have to share with them, not the password i guess) which will help to resolve this issue faster. I tried quite few times but google asks phone number to verify all the time.
Edit : be careful when you create such accounts to donate them. They strictly said not to fill phone number. In 99% cases, google asks for phone number to verify to create new account. Someone was saying if you have google service built-in and you try to create account then your IMEI number is linked with them and so they won’t ask you for phone number verification. So be careful.
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I don’t exactly know how it works technically. But as what I could understand, they have a pool of accounts (I don’t exactly know what it means tho) and there’s a Despenser which generates token which in turn is used to communicate with google through aurora store (using one of those pool accounts) and aurora store can download or update apps on behalf of you (so you don’t have to do same using your own google account).
And what devs did is, they have taken down dispenser for now (token generator in simple words) to protect their google accounts (the pool accounts) to avoid bans. This is probably happening because of too many requests with high number of different IP addresses because the number of users are too many now. So they are increasing pool accounts. So the “rates limits” will reduced and everything will work stable (ideally).
Well I am no expert so I can be wrong, but this is what I understood.
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You know sleeping gets in the way of getting things done. With this small group of family and friends I am thinking I can be admin over the phone number and just set them up with access, the authenticator app would just help with the password management.
I don’t want to do this just thinking of hopefully a short term solution.
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I wanted to link a formal PSA from Rahul here that helps clear some of this up that just ended up on my desk:
Just wanted clear the air, Aurora Accounts are not permanently blocked by Google, it is more of a temporary soft ban.
Since we are growing in numbers & the workload on each account has increased, resulting in token rate-limiting.
Persistent limiting caused accounts to be temporarily blocked.
All accounts are now working perfectly fine (2 days cooldown), we are adding more accounts to the account pool to better distribute the load.
Personal note…It’d be awesome if projects didn’t rely on Telegram for PSAs lol. Not even from a privacy POV, just a….practical POV
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Worked for me as usual this morning.
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First of all, make sure you’re on latest version, they have updated app recently but i am waiting for f-droid to post the updated app. Second, try to logout and login again, that seems to fix this for most people.
Updated to the latest version (4.2.2 → 4.2.3) and I still have this issue… Changing accounts doesn’t help either.
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I get same issue many times (I am still on 4.2.2), but logging out and login again works 2 times out of 5. So I think things are still messy. Hope it will get fixed soon.
I had the same problem yesterday. It worked again after clearing the cache of the app. Try that if you haven’t already.
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Yeah it worked for me! Thanks
Worked for me updating apps last night (anonymous user)
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Rate limit issue is still there. I get it once in while (just only for few seconds then everything works fine few seconds later).I am on the latest version (gitlab version now). Someone posted it on telegram channel of aurora store too. So I guess devs are aware of it too.
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Yeah, I have the same problem… 
I re-login, update and re-installed the app but nothing worked… I REALLLLLY need it… Hopefully Google doesn’t fuck up more this.
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Hello again! The workaround for search, on the latest version of aurora store is, go to settings > advanced > turn on search in custom tab. So we don’t need to search on web browser separatly, instead it will be done by the search button in the app. I also sometimes get rate limit while even login with anonymous, tried to clear cache of app and tried again to login but rate limits again, it took few attempts to repeat clearing cache and trying. So if anyone facing similar issues, use these tricks.
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Tested this setting and got similar results.
Opened Aurora Store in an old version. Tried the search, rate limited. Checked settings found no advanced options.
Updated Aurora to current version. Tested search it failed, rate limited.
Opened settings > Advanced > Search in custom tab (only option).
Searched and a web browser pops up with results.
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Well right now Aurora is running fine for me.
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