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If a promo requires a google play download, would it also be valid if I rerouted it to Aurora? (self.degoogle)
submitted 1 week ago by Battle_Masker to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Say a friend of mine has one of those dumb mobile game sponsorships, and if he gets 10 people to download the game through the play store, he gets paid. But instead it opens my browser where I tell it to open with Aurora store and download from there. Would that still count as a download with that code or not? Does that make sense?

Or is that still tracking no matter which store it is and where you download is moot?

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[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember that the anonymous option on the Aurora Store draws from a pool of real Google accounts created by the Aurora team. So it should count.

No idea if Android lets an app run itself in the background after merely installing it though. If it does, that might let trackers in.

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