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by topspin 3601 days ago
"Host from the main facebook.com domain..."

If true I believe that this would actually be an important improvement. This removes some plausible deniability regarding malware and other abuse; Facebook (or whomever else adopts this scheme) must guard more carefully against abuse when the content is coming from their own domains, as opposed to some third party.

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Must they? The uninformed layman probably already things the ads come from Facebook[.com] as that's the address site they're visiting.

I expect them still manage to hide behind "common carrier" arguments.

As far as I am aware, all ad creative is hosted and served exclusively by Facebook anyway.