So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

@slothrop ermahgerd, amazeballs.  

Got a link?

@rysiek Someone put up the text on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywViXvKoJ6A3q7tNsUO44XfBxP9kKv83Sm0--GiAo-rXjrWSzBsH3OwQ/pub

Apparently, Apple also is an anti-advertising extremist. That´s a bit of a pity. I feel much less avant-garde now.

It Starts Here_CEO Speech_finalfinal.docx

@slothrop @rysiek This bit made me eye roll so hard:

“It’s never buyer vs. seller, us vs. them - it’s all of us working together. To grow the digital economy.”

Which I interpret to mean:

“It’s never ad buyer vs. ad seller, us vs. them - it’s all of us working together against the common enemy, the consumers. To grow the digital economy at their expense.”

@bigiain @slothrop silly consumer… wanting to have a say in how their data is used. How quaint.