| Yes, correct. Ironsource is an advertisement/UA company that doesn't offer any "toolbar". What you're angry at (and rightly so) is the fact that their network was used to offer malware/adware. As per the first article you linked: > IronSource is likely to blame third party "partners" for most or all of the defects we have listed, but our analysis indicates that IronSource is importantly responsible. Also from the second link: > That’s not to say that IronSource is necessarily aware that a publisher (pay-per-install) is redirecting visitors to sites that impersonate Google Chrome. This is a clear failure on Ironsource's part to secure their network, but it isn't evidence of any malitious intent on their part. > This is just a spam piece from the spam company ironsource. It's their job to deliver ads. And ad mediation. And UA. > They try to put their spam-bundleware-crapware-search-bar into everything. They don't have a "spam-bundleware-crapware-search-bar". You're frustrated at specific advertisements on an advertisement network/the security of the network as a whole. > And this is just another article trying to convince app developers to make yet another spam app with spam bundle-ware s/yet another spam app with spam bundle-ware/a mobile application utilizing advertisements/ I'm not saying anything about the quality of Ironsource as a network, but lets not make them out to be the boogeyman. They are, at worst, inept. I am serious, my dude. |
I don't care. Whether a company acts deliberately evil, or is only negligent, is a legal distinction. What matters is what happens to me, the user. If they deliberately do bad things or negligently allow others to do bad things through them, the net results is bad things coming my way from that company. My defensive action is the same: avoid.