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by Ajedi32 2490 days ago
Here it sounds like the malicious code was in the advertising SDK itself, so ad blocking at the network level wouldn't necessarily have helped.
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Yes and I can't think of one single developer who has had to include AD's, ever scrutinising the code they are offered (though I'd bet one that they are out there and hopefully comment back), let alone been able to change it due to the terms such AD requirements impose.

Maybe, Google et all need to make sure APP's have an even more granular control of permissions in that you can seperate the APP from the 3rd party AD's. that would only help more, but alas I suspect that may never happen as that would enable AD control much more accessible at a level that goes against their revenue stream.