At the end of the day, small businesses are owned by people like you and me—people who themselves will benefit from improved privacy rights.

The practices of ad-targeting and engagement-tracking are precisely what make Facebook so tremendously powerful in the digital ecosystem.

Small businesses owners are, at the end of the day, individual citizens and consumers, too. They care about privacy, just like anyone should—and any increase in data privacy, marginal or otherwise, is an economic win for consumers.

This figure doesn’t necessarily indicate that small businesses benefit from advertising on Facebook, just that they have no other option.

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