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legendary
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It is natural for underage gamblers to be concerned about the problem online because gambling at such a young age will cause problems in their normal life. It will create obstacles in the way of growth it is important to have a certain age to gamble the role of family is more in overcoming this problem of minors parents can prevent gambling if they take the right steps they need to be well educated about the bad aspects. There will be entertainment to reduce the addiction to the game.
If everything were that simple, then there would be no problem.  And happy parents would watch as a teenager voluntarily leaves the computer or throws a mobile phone aside ..  Smiley
Alas, they do not obey and it is important for them to realize their value among their peers and friends.  And because of this, the parents cannot cope and the prohibitions do not work at all.  Only if the teenager's habitat is not too addicted to gambling is it possible to somehow distract him with normal games such as football, basketball or table tennis, or other outdoor games that are beneficial for physical development. 
By the way, in Latin American countries, teenagers often play football more than sit at the computer.  That is why they have such strong national football teams afterwards. 
So you just need to monitor the environment of your children and, if possible, change it.  True, this is very difficult.
hero member
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Those pop up ads really target everyone that's visiting their website and whoever clicks it. There's no solution on this as they can pop everywhere but with the guidance of the parents of the young ones, I think it's the best thing to do to avoid them being exposed in gambling at a young age.
It is also needed to raise awareness on this matter because there might be parents that cannot do that because of busyness and they are not aware of such so, letting them be aware of it, they might take action like blocking those sites that their kids might accidentally visit.
Well, I think ads can be mitigated by using some ad/pop up blockers or simply choose some browsers that ads free with the likes of Brave browser or whatever they could think of that can be a solution may it be free or paid. Most parents these days can't afford the guidance when it comes to these gadgets unless they're knowledgeable enough to for some mitigation and know-how.
I agree with you, that's why it's very important for parents to keep an eye on their children playing gadgets at this time and even if possible parents should always check the browser and application history on their child's gadgets, so that at least parents can anticipate the bad effects that children might get. from the gadgets, but unfortunately nowadays it is parents who plunge children into bad things in my opinion, because many parents are now spoiling their children by giving gadgets without caring that they are underage.
That's I think is a hard thing to do, they aren't with them even when they're at home because sometimes if their child/ren is/are teenager/s we can't deny the fact they wanted to be with peers. Most parents aren't tech savvy to worry these things and this ads being generated are a total sucker. I don't think it's intentional on parents side, no parents can do that to their child especially if it's harmful for them, not onto blaming maybe the focus was on mitigation to these kind of stuffs.

sr. member
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It's the responsibility of both parent and the gambling site to prevent children from getting into gambling at a really young age, the best thing that we can do is for us to fill our roles to prevent such thing, if you're a parent then it's your role to supervise and monitor your children and what they do online, as a gambling site owner, it's your role to prevent children from getting into the site.
I think parents should take the most crucial role in preventing their kids from gambling, those kids might find a subtle ways of bypassing the KYC age restriction of those gambling sites, parents need to constantly access and check their kids phones with a view to monitor the Apps and the functions of those Apps on their phones.
Taking a drastic steps by parents in preventing those kids from gambling  is very important else it will in a long run distract their educational pursuits if not quickly checked.
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On the notification panel of my android device and that of many other devices of people in my locale that i have come across, I noticed too many pop up ads about one gambling site or the other, which with a click, you will find yourself in the interface of an online casino or betting site asking for you to sign up and get huge bonuses, I also observed that when using the chrome browser on my cell phone to surf some websites on the internet, I am forcefully redirected to some gambling and betting websites that opens up on the tab as well.

I'm concerned for the underaged and how easy these things have become so exposed to them. I did a little research as to the statistics of underaged gamblers for last year, and according to an article, "39% of 11-16-year olds have bet their own money" as at when published in October 2020.

https://www.roulettesites.org/blog/responsible-gambling/underage-gambling.php

Just like pornographic sites, I don't think online gambling sites and casino's can fully checkmate underaged users that sign up, and as a result, unfortunately i see the number of underaged gamblers worldwide to increase significantly by October this year.

What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers?





This must be a concern of each countries as their allowable age to gamble is the main agenda here.

but AFAIK there are only very few country that allows 18 and below of age to gamble so this issue is alarming for much many parents that may not know their children is in gambling activities.
legendary
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I'm concerned for the underaged and how easy these things have become so exposed to them. I did a little research as to the statistics of underaged gamblers for last year, and according to an article, "39% of 11-16-year olds have bet their own money" as at when published in October 2020.

https://www.roulettesites.org/blog/responsible-gambling/underage-gambling.php

Just like pornographic sites, I don't think online gambling sites and casino's can fully checkmate underaged users that sign up, and as a result, unfortunately i see the number of underaged gamblers worldwide to increase significantly by October this year.

What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers?

You can't really save your kids from these unless you restrict their access to the internet. As long as they can access google, they can gamble or watch porn and most of the time you won't even notice what they were doing. Most kids today spend their time with tablets, playing roblox. Once you give them a tab, there is no turning back, you can't even take it away easily because all of his/her friends (if she/he has any) do the same thing.

Just make sure that the kid learns math well and it will be fine eventually. If he/she plays on his/her tablet all day every day, then the chances are high that she/he is going to be an addict.
hero member
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Well advertisement today can be seen in any social media platform, it can be in a banner ads, video advertisement and others. It's a very challenging to every parent today to control their children because mobile gadgets today were became an essential to every children because of the need to their education and due to trend also. ...
That's right. As parents, we can only control them as we can, but unfortunately, we cannot do it 24 hours.
However, we can try by giving them understanding and more attention in order to minimize their inetrests or willingess to gambling.
Because we really know, our kids, are not ready yet for this.

I doubt that KYC can stop young people from playing gambling because they will figure out how to bypass the KYC process. Many ways they can use, including borrowing their parents, uncle, aunt or other adult people to completed the KYC verifications and mostly, their parents will not know about that.
Yeah, Children are now being clever than we are thinking.
If the KYC is done lively, live video call, maybe it can help. But, I think they will choose other platforms that will not need to do KYC or only using KYC by document only that they can get easily.
And that will be easy for them to find other platforms that do not require KYC as with the help from the internet, they will get more than one gambling websites that do not use KYC. Geez, I am not surprised to see children now being smart than the adult people as they can see what adult people did and the other people so they can easily know what they should do.

This is no way gambling platform can determine users that are underaged and those that are not because most gambling sites does not requires kyc which might be very hard for them to know. The problem of who is underaged and who are not does not really concern gambling platforms and there no law that subject them to do verification for knowing who is underaged or not. The society is moving to other level which will be less strict on underage activities.
Yes, that is right. The casino will suspicious if they found a strange transaction that happen to their members and they will investigate it right away. But for who are their members, they will not think much about that as long as that is not related to the transaction. That is why the underaged can visit any website without limitation if they do not supervise by their parents.
hero member
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Agree to this. But most of the  websites has a agreement with the user upon registration like tick the box if you are 18+ so anyone could lie to it . Even undeaged they will tick it since no one will know he is underaged. Though sites now are having KYC but that was also bad to their websites since others will migrate to other sites that doesnt have KYC

It would be totally hard for a gambling website to determine whether the new comer registering on the website is an underaged or not unless the KYC of the gambling website requires the id of the new comer which I also think this kind of KYC verification requiring personal info is not quite attractive to a gambler because some or many of the gambler wanted to private their personal identity. This would be a challenging job for any gambling site to determine the age and this is quite alarming because there are some or many gamblers that are underaged which is not yet allowed to be in this kind of activities.
hero member
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Those ads should be targeted to you specifically and not entirely all owners and/or users of Chrome browsers and Android devices. The only issue here is that if children actually use mobile devices from their parents (or even pcs) and randomly visit sites they clearly shouldn't. Well tbf, that really isn't the issue, the issue here is that parents are supposed to educate their children at an early age so that things like these aren't an issue. Letting them gamble should even be possible just to make them sate their curiosity, and if they ever want to continue, that's when you step in to educate them, albeit harshly.
sr. member
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It has become alarming the way children gamble on line. The use of Telephones so common among adults,youths,and children have made gambling so common that children get addicted to it from this modern age,and this is what makes the society bad because those same children that are now addicted to gambling from this age,will even become worse in the nearest joint.
sr. member
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Gambling among minors will really be very hard to detect knowing that the online gambling industry is mostly just asking the clients to simply check the box saying the one who is about to play is already in the legal age, which is 18 in many countries. Any minor who wishes to claim that he is already 18 is not asked of any further proof that he is indeed at least 18 years of age.

I can't think of any possible solution to this problem except by regulating gambling ads. Sites and apps which are mostly downloaded by minors should not be displaying gambling ads.
hero member
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This is no way gambling platform can determine users that are underaged and those that are not because most gambling sites does not requires kyc which might be very hard for them to know. The problem of who is underaged and who are not does not really concern gambling platforms and there no law that subject them to do verification for knowing who is underaged or not. The society is moving to other level which will be less strict on underage activities.

Agree to this. But most of the  websites has a agreement with the user upon registration like tick the box if you are 18+ so anyone could lie to it . Even undeaged they will tick it since no one will know he is underaged. Though sites now are having KYC but that was also bad to their websites since others will migrate to other sites that doesnt have KYC
hero member
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It's certainly a valid concern.

However, I think that a lot of media opinions surrounding this topic is clearly blown out of proportion and sensationalised.

Also, not all the onus should be on the casino. Sure, there should be implementations of voluntary self-exclusion schemes, for instance, but you can't enforce any ban on underaged gambling with 100% certainty - there are bound to be people who slip through the nets.
legendary
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I also observed that when using the chrome browser on my cell phone to surf some websites on the internet, I am forcefully redirected to some gambling and betting websites that opens up on the tab as well.

Hmm, is this serious? That browser is alarming if behaving like that and my Chrome is not like that. As for my knowledge, there's no such thing as Chrome Browser or any popular browsers will force you directly to some gambling sites unless you click an ad as it will trigger another web page or tab.

I'm concerned for the underaged and how easy these things have become so exposed to them. I did a little research as to the statistics of underaged gamblers for last year, and according to an article, "39% of 11-16-year olds have bet their own money" as at when published in October 2020.

With technology today and with the current pandemic situation where everyone is focused only on their mobile and computers, people at any age will really exposed to gambling sites. Ads are everywhere not just for gambling-related sites.

Just like what other things they are seeing in the internet, it's now up to them how to deal with it.

What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers?

There's no solution but rather people have to educate one over one. It's not that easy and simple. After telling youth that they should not gamble, they won't just follow that easily.
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This is no way gambling platform can determine users that are underaged and those that are not because most gambling sites does not requires kyc which might be very hard for them to know. The problem of who is underaged and who are not does not really concern gambling platforms and there no law that subject them to do verification for knowing who is underaged or not. The society is moving to other level which will be less strict on underage activities.
hero member
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Well advertisement today can be seen in any social media platform, it can be in a banner ads, video advertisement and others. It's a very challenging to every parent today to control their children because mobile gadgets today were became an essential to every children because of the need to their education and due to trend also. ...
That's right. As parents, we can only control them as we can, but unfortunately, we cannot do it 24 hours.
However, we can try by giving them understanding and more attention in order to minimize their inetrests or willingess to gambling.
Because we really know, our kids, are not ready yet for this.

I doubt that KYC can stop young people from playing gambling because they will figure out how to bypass the KYC process. Many ways they can use, including borrowing their parents, uncle, aunt or other adult people to completed the KYC verifications and mostly, their parents will not know about that.
Yeah, Children are now being clever than we are thinking.
If the KYC is done lively, live video call, maybe it can help. But, I think they will choose other platforms that will not need to do KYC or only using KYC by document only that they can get easily.
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On the notification panel of my android device and that of many other devices of people in my locale that i have come across, I noticed too many pop up ads about one gambling site or the other, which with a click, you will find yourself in the interface of an online casino or betting site asking for you to sign up and get huge bonuses, I also observed that when using the chrome browser on my cell phone to surf some websites on the internet, I am forcefully redirected to some gambling and betting websites that opens up on the tab as well.

I'm concerned for the underaged and how easy these things have become so exposed to them. I did a little research as to the statistics of underaged gamblers for last year, and according to an article, "39% of 11-16-year olds have bet their own money" as at when published in October 2020.

https://www.roulettesites.org/blog/responsible-gambling/underage-gambling.php

Just like pornographic sites, I don't think online gambling sites and casino's can fully checkmate underaged users that sign up, and as a result, unfortunately i see the number of underaged gamblers worldwide to increase significantly by October this year.

What are your thoughts?, What are the possible solutions to the problem of the rising number of online underaged gamblers?
Advertisements are something that can't be avoided. As far as I know, most of the advertisements are targeted so casinos can get appropriate audience. Unfortunately, there is nothing much the casino can do to avoid underage gambling. I mean they can force all users to go through KYC as soon as the user registers, but most of the people won't be happy with that. As far as I know almost all fiat casino requires you to pass the KYC. I guess eventually even crypto casinos will be forced to make all users pass the KYC due to regulations.
hero member
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There doesn't really exist any solution to fit that problem. Before video verifications, kids were usually taking the passport of their fathers, were taking pictures and sending them to get KYC verified. After video verifications, kids ask to their adult friends to create casino account and give them in exchange of $5 or something like that, this person agrees and then these kids gamble. Also, these kids usually share the KYC verified accounts in each-other. I have worked in gambling industry and can tell you that these casino truly know what's happening, they just don't care because these kids are good income for them and the goal of these businessmen is to maximize the profit, even if that makes someone miserable.

The only solution that comes to my mind is to ask for KYC documents every week or two week in order to truly know who is the account owner. I think this will lessen the accidents that I mentioned above.
sr. member
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Those pop up ads really target everyone that's visiting their website and whoever clicks it. There's no solution on this as they can pop everywhere but with the guidance of the parents of the young ones, I think it's the best thing to do to avoid them being exposed in gambling at a young age.
It is also needed to raise awareness on this matter because there might be parents that cannot do that because of busyness and they are not aware of such so, letting them be aware of it, they might take action like blocking those sites that their kids might accidentally visit.
Well, I think ads can be mitigated by using some ad/pop up blockers or simply choose some browsers that ads free with the likes of Brave browser or whatever they could think of that can be a solution may it be free or paid. Most parents these days can't afford the guidance when it comes to these gadgets unless they're knowledgeable enough to for some mitigation and know-how.
I agree with you, that's why it's very important for parents to keep an eye on their children playing gadgets at this time and even if possible parents should always check the browser and application history on their child's gadgets, so that at least parents can anticipate the bad effects that children might get. from the gadgets, but unfortunately nowadays it is parents who plunge children into bad things in my opinion, because many parents are now spoiling their children by giving gadgets without caring that they are underage.


Even his own parents are busy with their own gadgets. Usually when they are just gathered in one room and they are all busy with what they are holding each other, never controlling what they access even they are not aware of each other. So far, the role of parents is not to provide any learning to children. The tendency to access prohibited sites is difficult to control if all of them do not provide education that truly educates their own children, what parents do is the most vulnerable example for children to imitate.
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technology is currently reaching people fast, children use cell phones to do schoolwork, to play video games, to watch anime, movies and series, and it is the parents' task to talk to the children and explain the risks of using gamble sites. bad luck, if parents clarify to their children that it is a TOS breach to use gambling sites and that even they may not receive the money in case they win because they are underage then the children will be able to understand.
In short, we are already relying on technology nowadays even with the simplest activity that we are involved on which do mostly needed up some internet connection which simply means that we are

On this issue, parents should have to take a look what their children do, even though they use gadgets because we can't deny the fact that technology fastest spreading and they are prone to the gambling activity if no one will guide them. This is a very serious or isolated case, we should look forward to them because their future will be at stake in this case. I am afraid because most of the young people are always curious about those things and I guess some of them will try when there is money.
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technology is currently reaching people fast, children use cell phones to do schoolwork, to play video games, to watch anime, movies and series, and it is the parents' task to talk to the children and explain the risks of using gamble sites. bad luck, if parents clarify to their children that it is a TOS breach to use gambling sites and that even they may not receive the money in case they win because they are underage then the children will be able to understand.
This is one of the disadvantages of growing technologies, we are exposing our Children into bad environment that can really affect them for their entire life.

This is why as a parent, we should double our time monitoring our child and guiding them into the right path so they won’t fall into this trap, we should also not depend on any government because that’s our responsibilities in the first place.

Crypto casinos or any gambling site already have this restrictions but due to anonymity they can’t monitor all their players, this is why we need a strong regulations and restrictions so those underaged can’t play on their platform, I guess basic KYC can help.
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