<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chasil</author><text>It is quite convenient both from the perspective of a stock Kindle Fire (commercial Android), and for LineageOS (non-commercial, unlocked, root available).&lt;p&gt;It will also indicate if the app requires Google Mobile Services, which would preclude correct functionality outside of MicroG or alternate implementations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ranger207</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s correct, and yes it&amp;#x27;s a massive violation of the terms. Aurora Store also lets you use your own Google account, which is also outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms. But the only way to get apps from the Google Play Store without installing the entire set of Google Play Services is this, so the entire setup is outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with what&amp;#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&amp;#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jraph</author><text>and without using something personal like your email address to download programs, which should be granted and was before mobile OSes. And still is on regular computers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ranger207</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s correct, and yes it&amp;#x27;s a massive violation of the terms. Aurora Store also lets you use your own Google account, which is also outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms. But the only way to get apps from the Google Play Store without installing the entire set of Google Play Services is this, so the entire setup is outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with what&amp;#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&amp;#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&amp;#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story>