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That probably should say: "joined the mobile advertising team to explore how we could display Flash advertisements on devices that don’t support Adobe Flash player"

Which is not really the cool HTML5 future anyone is looking for.

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Anyone who is looking for the "cool HTML5 future" to be ad-free is going to be bitterly disappointed. Online ads predated the ubiquity of Flash, and they'll be around long after Flash is forgotten.

yeahhh... basically we can turn the last 15 years of annoying flash ads back into the modern equivalent of animated gifs. whoopee =)

At least animated GIFs are easy to disable and doing so tends to have less undesired effects than disabling Flash.

At least animated GIFs are easy to disable and doing so tends to have less undesired effects than disabling Javascript.

And since this is really replacing it with Javscript...

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