It’s kinda gross. Also, not saying that shouldn’t be addressed, since it should, but I’m more concerned with the state of mobile app markets. Pick an game at random and i can probably show you a plethora of ways it is specifically designed to take advantage of subconscious habits and weaknesses. Especially of the vulnerable.
I’ve seen children gathering and spending excessive money in the most unhealthy habitual ways conceivable, and it’s bad enough for vulnerable adults who weren’t trained into the mindset since youth.
People don’t even understand the problem, and will defend the practice as their freedom. Who, while compelled by addiction, won’t be defensive when their problem is brought to light? But it’s bad enough that the popular opinion seems to be in defence of the practices.
It’s just sitting perfectly within the gray area outside of people’s concerns or cares. the bastards with no qualms taking advantage of the vulnerable or incapable are running away with hundreds of billions of dollars. Money out of the pockets of those who couldn’t mentally compete with professionally developed and financed methods of manipulation.
Deceptive designs are bad enough. Blatant scams or unethically disturbing advertisements should have been bad enough. Blatantly manipulating should be well over the mountain of shit that needs addressing on this front.
Allowing online gambling ads has been a terrible idea. The commercials are awful and they are everywhere. They are probably the worst commercials dreamed up from the depths of frozen Canadian hell. I can't even leave the TV on in the background if I'm doing something else.
Allowing online gambling ads has been a terrible idea.
Allowing ads was a terrible idea, period. It is not like those addicted to shopping feel any better when they see the next “must have” thing, or those addicted to food when they see something tasty.
They are probably the worst commercials dreamed up from the depths of frozen Canadian hell.
Nah. That would be the earliest ads ever created. These ads only look bad in comparison to other modern ads because we haven’t had much time to hone skills in producing gambling-based ads. They will improve over time.
Oh don’t worry, they put that split second “Have a gambling problem?” text in tiny font at the end, so people with gambling problems know that it’s bad.
What confuses me is that I see them on “family friendly” platforms. Like they want to make all the content safe for kids, then they have adds for scams and online casinos.
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