add anonymous google acount

[david7919]

Is it possible to add an anonymous google account feature to micro g services like aurora store has it?
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/wikis/Anonymous%20Logins

[lucasmz-dev]

Isn't that just not logging in? What functionality that needs an account that you need, that wouldn't be a security issue?
Also anonymous accounts are real accounts, that are just shared, and need constant maintenance

[david7919]

No, its not just not logging in. They are shared accounts or something similar, as you said. Some apps and games only need a google account as verification while the google account itself doesnt store important data.

If maintaining such shared accounts is too much of a hassle I can live without the feature. It's just a nice to have to use some apps without having to make dummy google accounts.
Wonder how the aurora store dev handles this.

[david7919]

Ok so aurora store page says it works via a token system. Users can add dummy accounts to this token/account pool and so on. So I think if users can add some accounts too, then it would be less work for the devs to maintain this feature.
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/wikis/Anonymous%20Logins

[lucasmz-dev]

What apps are breaking because of this? I feel like that's something you should mention

[david7919]

Mario Kart Tour requires a google login but then it also a nintendo account so all data is stored with the nintendo account anyway. There were some other apps with a similar situation, but I forgot about them.

[mar-v-in]

I don't think Mario Kart Tour requires using a Google account. I just tried and could start the game, when it asks for sign in with Google account, just cancel and it will let you go without one.

Most apps that require to sign in with a Google account will then also use it for something, typically to store user-specific data. Sharing Google Accounts for AuroraStore makes sense only because they have an account requirement for downloading APK.

Account sharing might be applicable for some Play Store related features (like split install or play integrity), but not so much for third party apps using a Google account.

[david7919]

Skipping the google account doesnt work for me.
Howd you do it?

[ale5000-git]

Anonymous accounts does not exist, Aurora Store just use "real" but shared accounts to search/download apps (they aren't really added to the device but just used in a limited way by Aurora Store).

If they were really used by microG it would mean that many users share the same account and this would lead to share your "data" of the app that use the account with many users and this is exactly the opposite of anonymous.

Games, expecially, use the account to store game datas.