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Month: May 2025

The SDKs and trackers in Perplexity's android app

The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity

Posted on May 31, 2025 by James O'Claire

Well for a quick weekend recap I’m going to look at which 3rd party SDKs and API calls I can find in the big 4 Android chat apps based. We’ll be using free data from AppGoblin which you can feel free to browse at any of the links below or on tables. Data is collected…

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How to self host your own S3 in 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by James O'Claire

Well, multiple disks hovering close to 99%, it’s definitely time to increase storage for OpenAttribution and AppGoblin. I needed cheap S3 hosting, and I had a pretty strong urge to do it myself. Parts This should be up to you, but in the end I ended up grabbing an 8-bay Just-a-Bunch-Of-Disks (JBOD) which is a…

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Apple: The Silent Advertising Monopoly

Posted on May 2, 2025 by James O'Claire

The good news just keeps coming: Apple was found to be violating antitrust relating to it’s App Store monetization policies. We (in the mobile ad space) have known this for years here’s me mentioning that Apple is a monopoly on iOS advertising in a blog post in 2022. I’m just happy that the courts are…

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