Yes. And it sucks if your native language is English, as that will go across multiple regions. If your website was only available in Swedish, then you could easily argue that your website was not meant for people in England.
But as long as you do business - and you very much do so when you have users there that looks at ads that generate money to you - then that country can say that you have to follow the laws there.
Another good example is GDPR. When GDPR became active, you could run into many websites that blocked EU countries as they were not yet GDPR compliant and/or didn’t want to be. And cookie banners - another EU thing that has spread across the world and maybe been adopted by other countries.
Yes. And it sucks if your native language is English, as that will go across multiple regions. If your website was only available in Swedish, then you could easily argue that your website was not meant for people in England.
But as long as you do business - and you very much do so when you have users there that looks at ads that generate money to you - then that country can say that you have to follow the laws there.
Another good example is GDPR. When GDPR became active, you could run into many websites that blocked EU countries as they were not yet GDPR compliant and/or didn’t want to be. And cookie banners - another EU thing that has spread across the world and maybe been adopted by other countries.