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		WillPostForFood on July 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware in... Their business model is mobile ads. The installer business was a decade ago, and prior to another merger with another ad network. The concern here is hyperbolic. This is about ads, not malware. There is no rational reason Unity would want to get close to malware.

lmm on July 14, 2022 [–]

Ads are malware. The reason ad networks use the same techniques as other forms of malware is that they're both trying to make the computer behave in ways that its owner doesn't want.

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