It's unfortunate how this piece goes off the rails towards the end, because it's so well-written and elegantly persuasive. a) The parlous state of San Francisc

It's unfortunate how this piece goes off the rails towards the end, because it's so well-written and elegantly persuasive. a) The parlous state of San Francisco does not strike me as relevant to the issue of how advertising violates privacy on the Internet. b) And then when he does get on the topic he exhibits the same blind spot he's decrying in other techies -- ignoring the role of decades of foolish ideological governance and one-party rule of the city leading to its terrible social stratification, and instead deciding to blame techies for not inventing more comfortable park benches for the victims of those policies to sleep on.