Topic: Gambling advertisements: A big trigger to gambling addiction. - page 2. (Read 243 times)

Gambling ads are exposed to a large audience, and only a small percentage of that audience develops the addiction, because they have a predisposition for that, and not exactly because they had access to gambling propaganda. Otherwise we could even say opened land based casinos are the reason why people get addicted, because they were influenced by the curiosity of seeing these shops opened, entered, started playing and got addicted.

I believe to blame ads is a way to get rid of personal responsabilities over our own acts. Misleading propaganda is another matter and should be banned, though.

I don't think there is anything one can do to stop this gambling ads from popping up when browsing, neither will TV stations stop advertising gambling sites. They are both into business, the casino and the TV stations. The TV stations are been paid for every ads they show, they see it as a means to make profit especially if it is in a country that gambling is legalized. If you are under gambling rehabilitation, then it is better that you don't use a browsing phone and watch only news on TV,to avoid you being tempted to gamble. Gambling activities should be done with self-control to enable one not get deceived by their ads.

Gambling ads and advertisements will always exist and even social media personalities are already advertising gambling sites but it shouldn't be a reason enough for a person who suffers from gambling addiction to get hooked into it. Casino is a business and they will do everything to promote their site so avoiding and ignoring them is the best thing that we can do. If a gambling-addicted person is highly affected by gambling advertisements, he better seeks professional help.

Are you logged in to your email (gmail) on your browser? Logging out is one solution
Browsers and google are collecting your data determining your preferences and your desires and which sites you always visit and then they prompt ads they consider to be likely you wanna visit. And this is because your demographic is already recorded to them.

Probably re-install or a new browser to use. But then again any browser today is doing the same thing. If you watch something on youtube and the browser figure you have a bounce rate of more than a minute on that page, the browser may already consider it your preference.

Using the TOR browser may be useful. or Simply just ads/pop adblocker.

I think that this is not the only reason because people get addicted in gambling. Maybe Its a kind of issue for people already addicted or maybe vulnerables but Is not the main drive. Why ? Because if you consider the whole population that can see advertisement only a few get addicted to gambling. For sure some studies or meta analysis must be realized in order to understand the real link between.

Well, the purpose of advertisement is to encourage people to engage into that certain thing being promoted. If it is gambling site, then obviously it is to attract plaers into their platform. But that should not mean that platforms are encouraging addiction; it depends on the individual. Gambling sites are just doing their thing; in the first place there are countries wherein such activity is legal. The activity itself is not the problem, but people with bad ideologies of how gambling works. Once a player is hooked up with the idea of being rich in quickest way possible, then that is where addiction would arise.

Adjustments should be done primarily with players and not to gambling sites or even land based casinos, alone. We have different industries and casinos are just making a living on their industry.

I guess this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-does-gamblingcasino-ads-help-an-addicted-gambler-who-wants-to-stop-gambling-5419859 was the closest thing to ever discuss about advertisements and gambling addiction, though it's locked already. I think you need some filtration over these kind of ads if you really want to avoid it in the first place because if you did see something like this on your path to avoid addiction, it will truly trigger you.

You don't plan to control the ads but plan to control yourself, controlling yourself is key because if you plan to control the ads it may be an impossible task. Gambling is almost now a general activity so even if you managed to somehow find a way to control the ads that you receive on your mobile phone and television,  it will be difficult to control other external factors like people talking about gambling around you, and you coming across gambling advertisements that you have no control over. So learn to control yourself, or seek professional help.

For online ads, just stop searching gambling-related info. I'm pretty sure most people versed on the net know that the ads that mostly show up on your browsers are ads that are deeply related to the stuff you search about. OR, you can find a good adblocker. As for television, I reckon you can just watch online, the amount of ads there is deeply reduced and if you were waiting for news channel stuff, then most likely they also won't have gambling-related ads.

Well if you're also like me, who's mobile number is(was) pretty much known to all damn casino marketing teams (I get bloody casino messages almost everyday), then you might also want to change contact numbers or something.

If you have a TV that allows you to install apps you can download an add blocker.
You can block channels that display these adds and don't watch youtube on your TV.

We rarely watch TV in my house. We rather use it to play movies of our choice, sometimes from streaming platforms, but they don't play gambling adds at all.
It's not that I need them not to do it, but I'm just not getting them unless I browse the Internet on TV.

I have never used adblock to block ads because I was worried that the APP would not be safe even though many people use it, but now there is another way to block ads, namely using the Brave browser where all ads will be blocked by it, usually when I watch TV online or YouTube. I use the brave browser to block annoying ads, but I'm not sure that it can prevent us from gambling ads, sometimes there are some close friends who play gambling near us and in the end we fall into it, but it all comes back to ourselves want to play or not.

If it's online then the best solution is to use an adblock but if it's on tv there's no way to stop them. If those gambling ads shown on tv are bothering them that much then it's best to stop watching through tv and switch to watching online so they can easily block it as there are different ways to block or avoid ads. The number of gambling ads that i've seen sometimes bothers me as well and whenever I get bombarded by these ads I just stop using the site and look for alternatives.

Can't all the gambling advertisements that appear be ignored or skipped when they appear on the screen.....!

I think, even though the quote you display says so about gambling addicts and advertisements, I think it all depends on the user himself, advertisements or no advertisements if they are already addicted to gambling, whatever they do, the point is still gambling, indeed the advertisement is quite interesting and tempting when seen, but we also have to think wisely, it's just an advertisement, not necessarily we can bet on getting luck like the ad.

Maybe with today's technology, there is no social media that escapes gambling advertisements, tiktok, twitter, facebook and so on, in general anyone can get and see gambling advertisements, For this reason, we need to be able to adapt to current conditions, so as not to trigger a fatal addiction to the world of gambling. In principle, I think adapting plays a big role in gambling advertisements that appear so we don't get addicted.

People that is on the process of gambling addiction treatment usually advised to avoid browsing the web since there's a high chance on stumbling on one of this ads. There's no way to stop it since there's no law that will control gambling advertisements. Also if I personally avoiding gambling, I will definitely stay away on my computer since online gambling is one click away and that gambling ads is just least of my concern when I'm online and avoiding gambling on every form.

We can't blame the ads to target gambler. The gambler itself should be the one to make away to avoid those things.

Those who act as gambling companies communicate with providers such as television and social media owners who have a large number of followers regarding the willingness to advertise their company of course for a fee to be determined.

In this context, both are mutually beneficial. So in my opinion, stopping gambling advertisements from being seen on television channels or on social media platforms will never happen, especially if the gambling companies are legal.

There are many media that gambling ads are passed to people, in my locality, when I click on YouTube comedy videos, you will see the comedians advertising gambling sites, which means probably they are paid to do so or they use the opportunity to tell people to use their promo code to register and get 100% instant bonus. Anytime you watch on such videos, there is no way you will not be exposed to that kind of advertisements, unless the government of the country warns people not to advertise gambling companies that way.

Another one are on TV channels. Like 5 years ago, I was annoyed to see the most known gambling site on many TV channels advertising the gambling site. Not only that, also that the most popular reality show in my country is also advertising the gambling site. I do not know what you can do about that, but for children, you can use parental care so that your children will not be able to watch such channels as it would require pin which you will not tell them.

As for the gambling sites that do pop up while browser, you can use ublock origin to block it. There are many browsers with built-in ad blockers today too. Only what you just have to do is to block ads which is also good against malware and many types of scam.

Even on this sites, if you are an addict and going through self-exclusion and rehabilitation program, you can at that time disable ads and signature campaign ads on this forum as well.

If he is live in where gambling is illegal, it's easy the addict just need to stop to touch any kind of devices e.g. cellphone, PC, laptop, television, etc.

If he is live in where gambling is legal, he also need to make sure can control himself to not go in offline casino, so it's need a help from someone who can always be in his side to know what's he doing.

Something caught my attention lately and I haven't been able to shake it out of my mind. It is this topic, but I don't know if it has been discussed here.
It concerns gambling advertising and its impact on gambling addiction.
Here's my take:
It is rather common to have ads pop up without warning on ones smart phone, tvs, but mostly when using apps and visiting sites that require ad permission before it functions properly.
Have you for once ever stopped to observe the kind of ads that pop up?
I did some shallow digging and found others who shared same concern.

Here's a snippet:

From my own screen observation, I have had more frequency of ads on gambling online, casino gambling, sports betting and the likes pop up more than I can count. Literally everytime I try to download movies or even apps, mostly some apps that use crypto exchanges for payments, these ads just pop up until I perform my instant magic of refreshing and canceling before they stop.
The gambling adverts and mouth watering bonuses even run on tv commercials too.
For someone who has stopped gambling or undergoing the process to quit gambling, perhaps for bad reasons of sure, these ads that pop up about gambling and their bonuses, is a big trigger with the urge to gamble on without a damn for quitting.

*How does someone who intends to stop gambling control these ads or stop them from popping up or seeing it on tv?


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