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Play store works just fine on GrapheneOS. All of play services run in a sandbox.

You can install the Play store from the GrapheneOS App Store.

In fact I'm pretty sure the GrapheneOS folks advise against Aurora Store, etc.

The entire point is so you don't have to have a google account. Aurora actually works fine if you do sign in. This is just blocking anon downloads.

Market price for a Google account is about $1.50, you can also buy a burner SIM to set up the maximum number of accounts Google will let you with the same phone number.

You don't need a sim card to make accounts for a phone in the first place. Not sure how, but on android devices they let you make an account without giving them a phone number. Probably because even Google realizes how bad gating application installs on new phones on having a phone number would look.

The problem is that even if you have separate google accounts on each android device, Google can still track you by looking at your contacts.

Yeah, was confused. I'm on GrapheneOS and don't even know what Aurora is.

It's an alternative client app for the google store.

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