And the "statement" in this article is the text from that email, disingenuously edited. I'm not sure why, but it rubs me the wrong way.
McCarthy of DebugBear clearly noticed this admonition and perhaps the mistake as well, because they have carefully highlighted "example.com" without linking to it, although they apparently have visited the site in order to copy and cite screenshots and unpack the CSS, and describe an extensive history of it.