To update system processes on Android (such as Android Web View), is it preferable to use Aurora Store or Google Play Store (without a Google account) ?
Thanks,
How can you use the Google Play Store without a Google account?
You need a Google account for the play store.
Besides the point, Aurora Store is a lot better. You don’t even need to have a Google account or Google Play Services installed on your phone.
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I strongly disagree, you are much better off using the Play Store for security reasons and there is no significant privacy concern when you aren’t logged in. My understanding is that the Play Store will update pre-installed apps without being signed in. Relevant article about Google planning to implement such a feature in 2019:
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What security vulnerabilities does the Aurora Store have?
You still need GPS to use the Google Play store anyway. That in itself is a privacy concern considering all the permissions it has on stock Android.
They mean GPS as in Google Play Services.
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I also ask myself the same question,
When I update Web View with Aurora, I’m prompted to install another application : the trichrome library. Have you ever heard of it?
Yes it is a library for Webview.
Is it installed via Aurora as much as via the Google play store?
What do you mean?
Will the system process that Aurora installs - such as trichrome library - be strictly the same as the one that would be installed via Play Store ?
Yes exactly the same. Aurora Store downloads everything from Google’s servers. So if you were say installing Uber, you’d get the same app on the Aurora Store as if you installed it on the Google Play store.