Concern about the the problem of online underaged gamblers.

[xSkylarx]

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

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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.

[Lordhermes]

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.

[Wexnident]

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.

[molsewid]

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.

[michellee]

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.

[mindrust]

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.

[Chato1977]

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.

[gabbie2010]

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.

[rhomelmabini]

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.

[delfastTions]

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 .. 
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.

[bitterguy28]

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.

sorry but it is not the underage is whom concern here but the people around them and also the government .
If you read the whole topic it is not about the their concern because they care nothing about gambling because all they want is to spend money for this

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.

Age is required in every country to be allowable but the problem now is that Online gambling is there and there is no need to present themselves but to gambling and deposit specially now that there is crypto gambling that only requires KYC  for formality .

[blockman]

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.

It can but not everyone is aware of those ad blockers because the typical user that isn't yet known about this are the kids and their parents that have a different profession. They're not techie until someone gives them the idea that they should use ad blockers just to block these ads.
It is true that many parents don't know the right thing in guiding their kids about things that involves technology and that's why some kids are used to gadgets and likely being controlled by it instead of them controlling it.

[kotajikikox]

Well what is the credibility of this site ? to give those statistics? it looks like they are just wanted to lure viewers but it is not the reality



I don't know if the site is trustworthy but i think this is not what happens worldwide.

and the site comes from UK so meaning this tackles only about UK gamblers and not worldwide .

[hello_good_sir]

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?

I guess it depends on what the definition of "bet" is in this circumstance.

If it is described very loosely then 39% is certainly within the realms of possibility. But I doubt that 39% of all teenagers have actually bet money in the casino, for example.

I do think that the gambling sector should be heavily regulated, but not to the point where it is inaccessible to anyone due to draconian KYC standards.

[AicecreaME]

We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

[Shasha80]

We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

It is true that today's children are very smart in accessing the internet, because now the internet has become like a basic need. So almost
everyone accesses the internet including children, and it should be a special concern for parents who already have children. Do not let children
access the internet for a long time, and always monitor what our children do when accessing the internet. Because there are lots of advertisements
and sites that children are not allowed to see,  especially adult sites and gambling sites are very dangerous for children. Indeed supervising children is
not easy, sometimes they are smarter than us as parents. Therefore, as parents, we must also keep up with technological developments,
so we can supervise our children when accessing the internet.

[delfastTions]

We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

Even if you install protection from undesirable content for the child on your home computer and all mobile phones in the house and, of course, children's mobile phones, he will still look for a way to bypass the protection, because his friends say "look - it's interesting ...".  And now he is struggling to access the Internet, free from parental protection.  And as a rule, it still gets access to unwanted and dangerous content. 
How to deal with it, I can't even imagine how?  Only by complete  ???blocking, which is now unrealistic.

[john_nautica]

Honestly that's really a large number of underaged gamblers, right now you can easily create gambling accounts and play but of course there's a restriction in regards of withdrawal but the thing is by just signing up and checking the box that you are legal age, you can easily create an account. No matter how big or small their budget starting at a very young age would have higher chance of getting addicted to it and I think that's really dangerous.

[Fesatmas]

We are in the information age right now, children are smarter than the old us when we were just kids. Kids that are 2 years old nowadays can open your phone easily if it doesn't have any password, what more to a 5-10 years old kids, right? They could easily navigate and explore the internet without their parents knowing, that's why it is important for parents to monitor their children screen time.

Everything is in the internet, just input a certain keyword and that's it, they are expose already to something they shouldn't have see or do.

If children are up to 10 years old, we don't need to worry, because children that age still haven't shown valid data about what they access and what they watch. remember that their world is different from ours, they only access shows according to their growth like cartoons. It's still too far to access gambling even if it comes to gambling, maybe just games and videos of their age.