>The solution here is to outlaw targeted advertising

Thanks, but no. As an end user, my preference goes as:

no advertising >>>>> targeted advertising >> untargeted advertising

And I am not just speaking hypothetically. Google has a switch in your account settings where you can flip a toggle to turn off all targeted Google advertising and make it un-targeted. I couldn't last more than a day with this and flipped the toggle back on.

While with targeted advertising, most ads were useless, they at least were somewhat relevant, and a few even piqued my interest. With untargeted advertising, I was getting absolute trash that was actively annoying me.