If it had been published by an advocacy group, [the article]
would have simply been the latest in an unending series of
baseless, pseudo-scientific attacks on online advertising
over imagined harms. But coming from the chief technologist
of the advertising industry’s primary regulator and
enforcement agency, the post takes on a far more coercive
tone.
I think the FTC makes a valid point, and the interesting topic of discussion, I realize though that they don't argue that advertisers in say, Gourmet, don't really target people going to Walmart.