Apps should be required to disclose every single ad network they use as part of their app store disclosures. I want a lot more transparency as to where the ads are coming from inside the app itself.

I've witnessed consumer apps throwing quite heinous malware/sketchware advertisements and watched the banners rotate between 4-5 different ad vendors to keep things hot and spicy.

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itopaloglu83 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The incentives are lopsided, there’s so much money to be made by selling access to you and your devices, and controlling you, than just taking your money.

	▲	Firaxus 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, it seems there are some externalities that a 100% free market doesn’t protect against for which regulation is probably the best tool. A regulation here that applies to all app stores is even business friendly as an appstore which wanted to do this already wouldn’t be punished by trying to do this on their own, for the reasons you mentioned.