But unfortunately it's the only way to get timely updates for some apps, so throwaway account it is...

E: Idk man, it's letting me update the few apps I have from there.

the problem is that anonymous account is just someone else’s account, I suppose, proxied through their servers. So what got blocked are the accounts or the servers themselves, which is shit but not quite surprising.

And has been happening on the regular for years...

I assumed that was the default intention, because we're here, and I personally want to only interact with Google anonymously.

Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting to install an application via an anonymous account.

The most important part has been omitted. The problem is that anonymous account is just someone else's account, I suppose, proxied through their servers. So what got blocked are the accounts or the servers themselves, which is shit but not quite surprising.

Non-anonymous accounts are still working as it's much harder to track and block them. They'll try to block them too, obviously, but not yet.