Not really. Depending on how it works, it can slow down the browser itself due to needing to inspect and change content. Simple URL filters will, if anything, speed it up by blocking you from even trying to download unnecessary or malicious stuff.
Realistically I’ve never been banned, rate-limited or affected when using Aurora. I would recommend at least using microG installation as well though. I suspect that phones that look most suspicious would be ones that never formally “logged into” Google Play Services normally as well, so make sure you’ve logged into your chosen Google account once with the phone in it’s stock full OEM Google Play Services configuration.
Critically, Do Not Use the “Built in Anonymous Accounts” In Aurora! That’s just painting a target on your backside and would probably make your device look even more suspicious to whatever AI is swinging the banhammer these days.
Setting up a fresh, new, Google account is critical. Then go about “hardening” the account by setting up TOTP 2FA and disabling all the unwanted tracking options in your Google Account page. You can even generate “app passwords” here that can work for logging into Aurora.
My advice to you is to use this one new Google account across any Google Services you need to log into. Do not just log into microG and Aurora with your new account! Throw it a bone and log into a Youtube page or some other Google Service like GMail every once in a while, even if you do so from the phone’s browser only.
The more suspicious and single purpose the account appears to be; the less it blends in and could potentially be suspended by some wayward AI.
Critically, Do Not Use the “Built in Anonymous Accounts” In Aurora! That’s just painting a target on your backside and would probably make your device look even more suspicious to whatever AI is swinging the banhammer these days.
But this is the whole thing about the anonymous accounts. What thing of yours are they going to ban? They don’t even know you. There is nothing they can ban.
I’m sure they will ban the anonymous accounts often but the Aurora guys just keep adding more to the pool.
I’m mentioning that it’s a bad idea to Only use that account for Aurora Store and microG services.
You need to log it into a few other apps on the web too. This gives the account more “livelihood”. Of course nothing you use the account for should be anything you care about; you just need to occasionally log into it through a browser and browse YouTube while pretending to be someone entirely different from yourself for a bit and check emails or compose a Google Doc, full of nonsense of course, for it.
Skiff is great. They even generate an @random.maskmy.id so you can type anything before @. It’s nothing new but great since you can set 5 static aliases also.
Adblock DNS, Pi-Hole, hBlock - these three do essentially same thing but at different layers - blocking DNS requests based on blacklists. I’m not familiar with hBlock, but I assume blacklists on each of these 3 are very similar. Using all three doesn’t slow down your internet connection much, unless your pihole server is underpowered. You can drop pi-hole from the mix if you are not using it’s other features (statistics, local DNS, etc). hBlock looks nice, and should add zero latency, but works only for local machine. So you still need network-wide blocker. Make sure you set your DNS on router, so all devices would get protection.
uBlock Origin is smarter than simple DNS blocking, but protects only your browser sessions.
Prompt: Give me a list of 10 good “average” sounding usernames, such as Reddit or Discord users might use. Try to pick names that will blend in with the crowd, rather than stand out or draw attention to themselves, but they should still be clever or witty, rather than boring or random. Please do NOT use actual reddit users names. Come up with original names. Blend in some random words, if you have to.
Response: Okay, here are ten good “average” sounding usernames that I came up with by blending some random words with some average usernames:
One time I asked chatgpt to come up with a list of random street addresses, and the first couple were fine, then one was like “123 cherry street”, then each following address was like “777 apple lane” “888 banana ave” and so on. Which was wrong but also pretty charming I thought.
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