I sense no one is reading this so I choose a screenshot but this is the antithesis of reality. Good competition policy (and enforcement, hello EU) actually supports data protection. The idea improved privacy hurts competition is a disingenuous myth invented by adtech lobby. 1/4 
Imagine writing a piece like this with misleading economic forecasting (that the revenue evaporates) while ignoring history that no privacy laws led to a duopoly of two companies capturing nearly all of the growth due to their tracking of users. 2/4
Many of the references are to industry friendly blogs and academic that don’t hold up. Facebook’s decline (more coming) due to kneecapping of its surveillance is leading to welfare reallocation to others with trusted consumer relationships. 3/4
Yes, you can look narrowly at higher prices for SMEs ad prices on Facebook or look narrowly at lower CPMs for apps/sites when they can’t leverage surveillance data on iOS or worse look narrowly at vendor tags on sites. But any respected economist will laugh at that analysis. 4/4
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