Are you working for the Verge? ;-)

https://www.theverge.com/24100979/altstore-europe-app-marketplace-price-games

Google dont manage to get data phoned back with GrapheneOS i seem to recall. I may be wrong

That’s a good one! Thanks

EDIT: it does require a computer for initialisation EDIT2: it is a fork from the AltStore project. Very interesting!!

Agreed

Yep - that’s because Apple has not released a stable way to create alternative app stores. Developpers still have to find roundabout ways to offer an alternative store. I am sure they will adapt as soon as they can get a stable stand-alone app working in the apple ecosystem

I think you could reconsider your position re Pixel/Google phones. It is the one major maker that allows you to deploy an OS securely on their phone and GrapheneOS is grand. I have used it on a secondary phone for years.

These guys have been around for a little while: https://altstore.io/

It works well if you self host with your own domain! Grewt piece of kit, really

Depends on what header they read and how

I dont think so. I get my self hosted aliases banned. They must read the dkim/spf/dmarc or other types of headers against a base of mainstream email providers