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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And as a website you don’t deal with any of that, you just implement an ad platform’s ad window and they serve whatever regional ads are relevant to your visitors. So yes, practically all websites with advertising would be operating in every country worldwide, by your logic.

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skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Again you’re just factually wrong. The website operator has a wide degree of control over what can appear on their site in the admin panel.

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- AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  it’s still an argument that relies on “everyone does it ergo it must be ok”, which wouldn’t stand on its own terms either.
  
  Given that’s how the entire Internet works, it does stand on its own terms. The UK isn’t influential enough to force the entire Internet to follow suit. They can take it or leave it.
  
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