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Or, as a compromise, no third-party javascript. Google can easily code up the 100 most common javascript ad formats and let advertisers pick from a menu.


Why would you need a Turing-complete language to describe advertisements? Why can't they be static images? Or static HTMLs?


From the advertiser's perspective, it wouldn't be a Turing-complete language, since they would only have access to standardized templates. Such a system would probably have to be implemented in Javascript at the browser level though, unless you could do it all with CSS animations.


I'd rather just be rid of them altogether. No compromise.


Do they really need 100 formats?

1. Video ad that autoplays.

2. Punch the monkey.

3. ???




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