Bloat from unity ads

I build my android app, and I see this in the editor log

1.3 mb 2.0% Packages/com.unity.ads/Editor/Resources/Editor/landscape.jpg
1.3 mb 2.0% Packages/com.unity.ads/Editor/Resources/Editor/portrait.jpg

My application is not using unity ads, so why do I have 2.6 MB of bloat from unity ads? How to remove these?

 

You can remove it via the Package Manager

 

Which Unity version and for which platform are you building for?

/Rasmus

 

@hippocoder @rasmus-unity

I am using 2017.4.1 on macOS I am building for android
Does the package manager work in this version? I can't find it anywhere

 

I could not find the package manager, but I wiped the cache folder and the problem seems to have gone away.

 

Even if you want to use Unity Ads, there should not be two such JPG images in the build.

123948 May 3 06:30 Unity.app/Contents/Resources/PackageManager/Editor/Packman_Temp/com.unity.ads-2.0.8/package/Editor/Resources/Editor/landscape.jpg

118465 May 3 06:30 Unity.app/Contents/Resources/PackageManager/Editor/Packman_Temp/com.unity.ads-2.0.8/package/Editor/Resources/Editor/portrait.jpg

These placeholder graphics are 8MB each. So about 1/4 to 1/3 of a small Android build.

They seem to be included because someone at Unity named the folder "Resources" even though anything inside an "Editor" folder should be excluded. This is both a bug in the Unity Ads, and in the Unity Build system which can't decide which rule takes precedence.

I'll neuter these files manually. Since it's inside the Unity.app, it will likely get mangled if I upgrade Unity later.

 

@DenisasK, I will give it a shot this weekend. I only have one build of Unity at the moment. I neutered the files but didn't remove them, by reducing their JPEG compression quality to "eye-gouging blotchy" level. So they should still appear in a fresh project build report. If so, I will upload a full tarball of the built project for your perusal.