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AdguardTeam / companiesdb

This is a companies DB that we use in AdGuard Home and AdGuard DNS.
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Which company should be shown in a chain of companies #241

Closed ghost closed 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

In this pr as an example, Soomla was acquired by ironSource, which is in turn owned by Unity.

In this example, we have ironSource listed as a company, with Soomla listed as a tracker for ironSource. We also have Unity listed as a seperate company from ironSource.

As shown in the example above, we can see there's 3 tiers in the hierarchy of businesses, but maybe this should be defined better?

Using the example above, do we only list the highest company in the chain in the companies.json, and list all other companies listed in trackers.json, or should we list them another way?

jellizaveta commented 1 year ago

Company refers to the business who owns the tracker or the subsidiary company that produces the tracker. Since this database is based on third-party database some companies may not follow the same logic, but in most cases it does.

ghost commented 1 year ago

I suppose based off recent pr's, my thoughts are correct.