Sure :)
You mentioned it was in a book, so the first thing I did was go to books.google.com; after that, I just typed in some keywords that seemed right - you can see them at the top, I searched for [buckminster fuller triangle squaring power]
I'll paypal $50 to the first person who can write a script or web interface which just takes a zip-code and returns a list of infections based on this data.
It's the next sentence in the article.
> The total number of files also includes source files copied into release branches, files that are deleted at the latest revision, configuration files, documentation, and supporting data files; see the table here for a summary of Google's repository statistics from January 2015.
None of what he wrote applies to any of the large advertisers which comprise 95%+ of Google's ad revenue. I can see some of it applying to tiny inconsequential mom and pop advertisers.
Of course performance/direct-action advertisers would not bid per impression if they wanted clicks or conversions (they would bid for clicks or conversions), and if they were a brand advertiser they would pay for views and monitor brand awareness metrics (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3499086?hl=en). And they would also monitor their placement reports and filter out low quality sites if they wanted. And YouTube is growing rapidly and that is not ignorable.
Also, Google search ads still account for most of Google's ad revenues.
IMO this is a very sensationalist article which greatly exaggerates advertiser ignorance and platform mischief.
Very scary. Not only am I even MUCH more sedentary than this guy, and also 34 years old, according to 23andme I am at very very high risk for blood clotting.