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Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent


AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Unfortunately, some of them are dark, meaning they have no landing page of any kind, and I’m unclear who controls these domains.

AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Possibly this is bidmachine.io’s as it is the most common, but really all the top ad newtorks appear nearly 1:1 along side it across the 276 apps I’ve found it in:bidmachine.io 275unity3d.com 270doubleclick.net 269mtgglobals.com 267rayjump.com 267applovin.com 261vungle.com 257 The information sent seems somewhat bland compared to the usual deep scraping that advertising SDKs do.

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