I very highly disagree.
- They hurt the naive people who see those ads, who are left with the false impression that gambling can be an easy way to make money. Especially minors can easily fall under this illusion when all of their favorite streamers and Youtubers keep showcasing their 'big wins' -- Without disclaiming the fact that it's completely fake.
- They hurt legit sites that don't want to participate in faking their bet amounts. Roobet, as an example, is pretending to be bigger than they truly are. A lot of people will follow the critical mass, and they will play in the casino which has the most activity. This is a loss for those casinos with better moral standards.
- They hurt legit gambling streamers and Youtubers who don't want to make fake bets with fake reactions. It's difficult for honest people to stand out with their bets of $50, while those fake streamers are pretending to gamble with tens of thousands.
I'm genuinely disgusted by the way Roobet runs their business. Their company is successful and highly profitable, and they could remain profitable even without doing all of this shady stuff. They made this explicit decision to choose the route of greediness, even though they had other options.
What makes the matter worse is that they're targeting lots of influencers who are primarily making content for children. As an example, they're sponsoring Jake Paul and Ricegum, which is absolutely disgusting, in my opinion. I could never imagine a respectable site like Stake.com to do anything like this.
Doing shady, dishonest stuff is a slippery slope; If Roobet is willing to create fake ads and massively inflate their bet counts on the website, this makes me wonder; What other immoral things would they be willing to do? Where would they draw the line? Based on what I've seen, it wouldn't surprise me even the slightest if Roobet would start directly scamming their customers. Based on my observations, their moral standards are non-existent.
Much respect to your standard. However, naive people will always be hurt in this kind of world we are living in. Much of what we see around are fake nowadays. How I wish everything will be so genuine that no innocent individual would ever suffer from fake ads, news, promotion, education, promises, opportunities, etc.
Don't be misled by fake gamblers posing as real ones. I don't like Roobet's approach but I don't think it is illegal and so it is your responsibility to protect yourself against misleading promotion just as you need to protect yourself from misleading ads of fake milk, fake cheese, fake meat, fake flavor, fake ingredients, etc.
I'm just disappointed.
I've been under the impression that this community is very efficient at imposing self-regulation by not supporting shady operators. It's disappointing to see how warmly the Bitcointalk community treats Roobet, despite them very clearly trying to take advantage of you by immoral means.
I'm glad that the community has at least some standards these days -- For example, they're very quick to call out and shoo away gambling sites that are not provably fair. However, in my opinion, the bar is still really low.