Receipt
Filed May 4, 2026
The short version
Eric Seufert predicted on January 4, 2021: “I believe that Apple's upcoming iOS privacy changes will significantly harm Facebook's revenue, causing a roughly 7% revenue impairment in Q2 2021 in the base case scenario.” Verdict: Called it. Meta itself estimated ATT cost it ~$10B in 2022 (~8% of ad revenue), validating Seufert's base case almost exactly — and he called…
Prediction by
Eric Seufert
On January 4, 2021
“I believe that Apple's upcoming iOS privacy changes will significantly harm Facebook's revenue, causing a roughly 7% revenue impairment in Q2 2021 in the base case scenario.”
Follow-up
Meta itself estimated ATT cost it ~$10B in 2022 (~8% of ad revenue), validating Seufert's base case almost exactly — and he called it 9 months before ATT even rolled out.
Original source
Mobile Dev MemoEvidence
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