Yes. And no. It isn't quite that simple. The problem is that adverts and stalking are intimately linked ATM. I block companies trying to follow me around my da

Yes. And no. It isn't quite that simple. The problem is that adverts and stalking are intimately linked ATM. I block companies trying to follow me around my day-today life, I don't block adverts directly but inadvertently because of that link between the two. GDPR and similar regulations are not about advertising, but privacy. They are usually written to disallow excluding users who don't agree to the stalking part – so “allow ads or pay by other means or go away” is fine but “allow stalking or pay by other means or go away” is not, and the way the ad-tech industry currently is the two can not (easily) be separated.