What's going on with Unity? Oh...
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I don't have too much direct knowledge, so I just had to look it up. IronSource is a mobile app development company based out of Tel-Aviv that had previously, intentionally, built an installer SDK (so think of the back-end code of an install wizard) called IronCore which formed as the basis of it's business model. IronCore would be purchased by other Software companies so that they could make an installer for their program. Malware organizations and companies want to piggy-back onto these installers using those checkboxes that automatically change your browser or add toolbars. These Malware companies would then pay both the software company and IronSource for each installation they made.
Considering that IronCore became the main mechanism of profit for IronSource, and considering that Malware Bytes (the famous anti-virus software) labeled the IronSource installer as a malware installer, it would be targeted as removal. Seems like IronSource was fully aware that it's business model made most of it's profits from the installation of malware, but was also developing other products (most of which were data collection, monetization, and mobile app development). They have since closed down IronCore several years ago. Unity then purchased them last year.
What OP is saying is that IronSource is now one of the primary mechanisms of ad delivery and ad monetization on Unity. Unity is trying to force people to use IronSource (their own internal ad generating company), rather than a competitor. One of those competitors is called "AppLovin". It is a similar company (and a competitor) to IronSource, but is a larger company and is based out of California.
Why is Unity trying to destroy AppLovin? To me, it appears that Unity isn't trying to destroy AppLovin, but IronSource is trying to destroy AppLovin. AppLovin tried to buy Unity to solve their monetiztion problems. However, part of the terms of that purchase meant that AppLovin's CEO would become the CEO of Unity, and Unity would terminate it's merger with IronSource.
It appears that IronSource took that fucking personally.
Okay, so here's my sources:
So, Company A buys out Company B, but Company B's C-level officers call the shots for Company A? Is this the fucking aerospace industry?
Fucking apparently.
This makes me quite concerned that the money situation in Unity is catastrophic. You merge with a smaller company, and now the smaller company runs your business. It sounds like in reality, Unity may have been the smaller company.
Whether you call it "Get Woke, Go Broke" or "Go Broke, Get Woke, Then Croak" or "Roll Left and Die", all these companies seem to have a set playbook where Step 1 of Financial Recovery Emergency Checklist is "offend every decent person you can".
It's because the financial institutions are helping to secure themselves by propping up (and making dependent) other companies on them.