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1. Spivak+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-09-30 20:05:42
Seems like B and G. Then if you do business with A (what the GPDR calls "UK Establishment") and A has laws governing its citizens abroad like the UK GPDR then also A.
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2. shagie+Q[view] [source] 2025-09-30 20:09:38
>>Spivak+(OP)
But the traffic is coming from country D rather than country B. There's no way for the company to know that the person and their interactions is subject to the laws of B rather than D.
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3. joseph+Z3[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-30 20:27:30
>>shagie+Q
Most sales aren’t that complicated. Usually UK law targets anything sold to people who are physically in the UK, paying in GBP. Which from the sounds of things, was something imgur did.

Does it also count for people in the UK using a vpn? What about people in the UK paying using American money? It’s not clear, but it doesn’t really matter. These laws target the service providers, not the customers. If you website says “this product isn’t available to UK residents” and you IP block and don’t take GBP as a payment method, nobody will get too angry if a spattering of tech savvy people get around the block using a VPN.

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