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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I guess this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419859.0 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

As annoying as these non-permissible ads could be there's certainly no way to avoid it from pop up on your screen as they are kinda a part of commercials on the site. Every site now is predominantly interrupted by one or more ads which is like the new trend now, and for gambling ads the best is to ignore by giving a blind sight/mind to it bearing it in mind that you have taken a decision to restrain from any gambling related activity and for that reason a popped up gambling ads shouldn't in anyway have a thing one your decision.
The bottom line is, these ads are just unavoidable.

Let it not bother you and you definitely have to shake it out from yourself because it is actually nothing to bug about. If you were around during the ico and IEO then you will understand when something is the talk of the town as they say. Just maybe gambling and gamble is the talk of this time.

Question to answer is how many signature campaigns are running through gambling companies and how many others are existing that are not through gambling companies.


As far as we can discuss this, I don't think we can do anything about this and like I was making a point above, the gambling business is fast growing and such companies scout for customers everywhere, moreover social media is the first soft spot because it is the abode of the young people who are mostly first line customers. One of the factors that have made social media grow very rapidly is the smart phone technology and so gambling companies like I said reach out to customers via smart phones to market themselves easily through their ads.

Regarding addiction to gambling, I think it is a decision to click and follow the directions of any ads. You have the instructions to follow and provide certain information or data like names, email address etc, so you can actually stop or resist it at a point if you don't want to.

From my observation, there are three things that gambling advertising does to the subconscious mind by sending subliminal messages. These include:
- Gambling is good because my favorites are doing it and have endorsed it, so nothing is wrong with it.
- I will win a lot of money with the little amount I will wagered.
- I can never be addicted to gambling.

For someone who intends to stop gambling the few suggestions I have for the individual is
- Install ad block on your device
- Clear cookies. It will delete the data from previous gambling sites the individual has visited.
- Avoid the gambling discussion board on the forum.

If a gambler decides to quit gambling, he will do it, and if he is a weakling, then he will constantly come up with excuses - then advertising will interfere with him, then old friends will call him to the casino, then he will have easy money, for which he will decide to play at the casino out of old habit.

It all depends on ourselves, not on what is happening around us. Only when you are a person who understands that all decisions depend only on him, only then he becomes truly free.

Unfortunately it's really hard to control advertising when we are online. The online marketing market is huge and many companies pay a lot of money to get access to our phones and PCs. There is no button that we can press to avoid advertising in the future. For gambling and other addicts it must be especially hard because they see the same ads everybody sees. And in the online world everything works with algorithms, once you get categorises in the gambling section its really hard to get out from it. My advise would be to get a new phone and new phone number. Only when we start completely fresh we can try to avoid gambling advertising. Otherwise it's going to take a long time for the algorithms to move us into different categories. There also some ad blockers, but I don't think they work 100% and ads will eventually find a way around it.

There is not much you can do, on a regular PC you can install some add-ons which can minimize greatly the ads you watch and even specifically block them, but on your phone and on your TV there is nothing like this, it is because of this that it is so important to not develop any kind of gambling addiction to begin with, because if it was hard to overcome on the past, now this is many times harder thanks to how ubiquitous our technology has become.

If the companies being advertised through these ads are legal, we should not have a problem with this. They are following the law in the country and just promoting their business. Also, I have seen most of these ads also show warning messages like it is addictive so play responsibly.  Even after this, if someone decides to play and loose more than what he can afford, it is his mistake and the gambling companies cannot be held responsible just because they showed ads. Individuals also need to have self control and that applies not only to gambling but all other areas of life.

It's going to be very difficult to stop gambling or at least not influence by it because it's all over. From the internet even to the real world, when you drive you will see it's being advertise all over. If you want to then you have to cut ties with internet, which is very difficult.

So maybe, it's your mental fortitude that are going to save your form being a gambler or gambling addict.

Now here in our country, every one is playing slot machine, even those that I know it the past that totally against me going into gambling casinos and losing money. Perhaps it was really the ads that drive this people to play.

Finally it all comes down to how mentally strong you are. Gambling advertisements are allowed because they generate tons of money and money can buy almost everything. If you know that gambling is bad for you and you have experienced the harshness of gambling addiction and even though TV advertisements are still triggering you to start gambling, then definitely you need to work on yourself instead of blaming ads. Yeah, ads aren't really good, this situation looks like putting Mexican burrito in front of very hungry man but at the end you have to have high self-control.
Definitely, high self-control is the key, this will not only help you to escape from addiction but it will make someone more successful in life.
One good way is to take a paper and write down some rules, yeah, you need plans, write down:
1. I am going to stop gambling.
2. I should ignore gambling ads.
3. I should never open gambling websites because of my past.
4. Do push-ups every time your mind tells you to gamble.

I hope you got the point. You should make this rules according to your situation, your past and your needs.

IMO, the most important point is the "intention".

If a gambling addict has the intention to stop his gambling activities, it doesn't matter if he sees gambling advertisements everywhere, whether it's TV media, advertisements on websites, advertisements from social media and others, he will remain firm with a strong determination to don't be tempted by a high desire to gamble. he must also establish himself, that he can be released from the snares of addiction.

If he is still tempted, provoked, unable to even control his high emotions and desires, it's useless. because the fact is, we can never stop the ads. Also, not all gambling ads that appear can be ignored or skipped when they appear on our cellphone or desktop screens. So, the point is self. when a person can control himself more, it means that he will not be affected by gambling advertisements. instead, the strongest impetus is not from gambling advertising, but from our own environment.

Having gambling adverts pop up on your mobile phone is really a trigger of addiction on gambling to someone who has not really stoped gambling. Quiting of gambling is a determination, it has to do with self discipline. If you are really determined to quit, noting can trigger you into gambling. I have seen where someone will say " i wont gamble again" the moment the see any gambling high odd they will dive into it. Such persons have not really determined to quit gambling. To me, I don't see gambling advertisment  (https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline)as a trigger to addiction.

It's true and slightly disturbing how prevalent gambling can be in certain fixtures, but educating people about the dangers and reality of gambling is probably a better solution than trying to block it outright. Financial literacy and understanding the sheer mathematical odds that are against you, along with the endless reviews of losing players out their on the internet should be enough to warn people away from them. Some people can gamble responsibly without falling into a reoccurring trap, making those adverts nothing more than pretty pictures that benefits some kind of sports club or TV station in the form of revenue. More effort could perhaps be made to advertise responsible gambling alongside the adverts however.

I have also face this issues many times Sometimes it becomes a source of annoyance But it is true that repeated exposure to this ad penetrates the unconscious mind of our brain and gradually helps us to get addicted to it later on. Not only gambling web sites but every company adopts this approach for their own interests, including everything from Facebook to Twitter.
But as a way to avoid the effects of these gambling advertisements, I would say that when an advertisement popup comes up, close it immediately, I think it will help a lot, I myself use this method.

It might be very difficult to avoid or abstain from gambling adverts because to stop using mobile phones or watching television or stop using the internet. These advertisements sometimes propupp in almost everything you do on the internet. It is possible to block some of these adverts but you can't avoid all of them. Hence it is important to have self control even if the advert is very enticing. My challenge sometimes is when I see these gambling companies targeting sometimes underaged tennegers which could lead to gambling addiction. These avderts are everywhere on the internet so avoiding them might be impossible.

Its almost everywhere specially when you do surf on the web which it is really something that someone couldn't really be avoid on meeting or encountering these ads.If you are a gambler then  you would definitely
be having that kind of impulsive feeling that you should try and play on what site that had opened or did really make out that kind of advertisement.If you are really that seeing yourself that you are already on that addiction mode or are then the one who could really help out yourself is only you on which this is really a matter of discipline and extreme control because if you do fail out this thing then you would really be finding
yourself into a big trouble.You cant really just make yourself that let addiction control over you because it would surely be fucking you up with your finances.

These things never happen in my country because we have strong censorship and gambling and smoking are banned in showing on TV, you have your government allowing this its not right advertisement has a strong impact on the fertile mind of children and for those with weak characters.
Stop patronizing shows that ask for support or allow ads on their show if you can do this, if you cannot then educate your children or everybody in your household about the harm of gambling, education should start in your household if your government failed to take action on these ads.

Well, it's pretty difficult to really get rid of the targeted advertisements in the era we live in since almost everything that we do online is recorded and sold to advertising companies and they provide targeted ads for their clients targeting us as being the potential customers, so I really doubt if there can be a way to stop this unless a person stops using internet completely which doesn't sound like an option.

Almost everything these days work with the internet, and brands and businesses are doing advertisements online more often than in the last decade, the reason for that obviously is the rise of the internet and mobile usage among people from all interests and ages, and it provides them with an opportunity to promote their services and products more widely.

In our country, gambling ads are everywhere, and it shows any time of the day so if you are a compulsive gambler, you can easily get attracted to them. However, gambling temptations are everywhere nowadays and we have no control over them but the decision to gamble still relies on us. We should know how to control our urges and learn how to ignore gambling ads if we already know that we are incapable of dealing with their risks.

I don't know about you as I'm not about to stop gambling but with regards to the above question, i think the only solution to that if you are that serious in stopping gambling is to stop watching television or any stuff that has advertisements on gambling, you can ask someone to download some stuff from the internet for you so won't be able to see those ads.

Your determination to stop will give you reason not to get tempted with these ads.
It is true that these pop ups will always be there so long you are connected to the internet.
If it pops up, don't watch, just click the x button at the top. Most are just misleading the user, showing mouth-watering bonuses.
It is on the person himself how he can stop those ads, because we are in the digital age already and you can't control those adverts.