Whats the go to method for installing apps? Aurora? F-Droid? Wouldn't mind getting thoughts on this or even his preferred way of installing apps.
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If the developer provides a self-updating mechanism for their app, it makes a lot of sense to get it directly from them.
F-Droid has serious issues with the security of their infrastructure and the app. Updates are often very delayed and they make undocumented changes to apps.
Lots of people recommend F-Droid but it has some serious flaws and they're completely not open to acknowledging or addressing them. We expect many users are going to end up getting compromised when the poorly maintained/secured F-Droid infrastructure ends up compromised...
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Aurora Store is an alternate frontend to the Play Store. It's possible to use the Play Store itself too. Either way, the Play Store requires an account.
Aurora Store automatically obtains a shared throwaway account by default for convenience and as a form of privacy feature.
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I tend to do this if it's possible. I use Aurora store as i don't want to create a Google account. A throwaway maybe the way with a random phone number I guess.
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Aurora Store still uses an account.
You don't need a phone number to create an account in most cases, only when using an IP address they consider high risk, etc.
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