At some point, someone is going to turn static visual (and text, I suppose) ads (back, per the "text" part) into a competitive advantage. Why? Because they ac

At some point, someone is going to turn static visual (and text, I suppose) ads (back, per the "text" part) into a competitive advantage. Why? Because they actually get through. For the graphics, forcefully stripped of any meta-data and corners of the format that can become mal-ware vectors. I'll put up with ads that don't move or make noise at me. And that don't/can't try to infect me. But, no one wants to do that. Stalemate. My fear is that, in addition to increasingly locking down the web, the new DRM extensions will be used to force (crap-laden) ads upon us. Content and crap will all get packaged up together, as an encrypted binary. Et voilà, no more open Web. P.S. Yeah, I don't want to look at gross medical ads, either. So, I guess I have a few more qualifications, personally.