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Apple App Store Dropped Support for Anti Ad Fraud Specs

Posted on January 22, 2025January 23, 2025 by James O'Claire

First let’s recap, what is app-ads.txt App-ads.txt is a specification by the IAB to help fight advertising fraud. It works by a publishing app (they make money from the ads) linking their developer site with a txt file which has their advertising publisher IDs. Thus a buyer of the publisher’s ads can lookup the ID…

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AppGoblin: Free App Stats & Info

Posted on November 7, 2023April 18, 2025 by James O'Claire

Update: 2025 AppGoblin just keeps growing! Now covering >4m apps, thousands of advertising companies, 50k apps scanned for SDKs, and free ASO marketing tools for app marketers. The past few weeks I spent building a front-end for an app store crawler that I made. The end goal is just to provide an open front-end for…

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