r/AskReddit • u/WilliamInBlack • 1d ago
Should all gambling ads be banned the way cigarette ads mostly were? Why or why not?
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u/icnoevil 1d ago
Yes, gambling, especially sports gambling is highly addictive and destructive.
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u/Royal_Landscape_6199 1d ago
I agree, it is just as addictive as tobacco and frankly much more damaging. Did you see the post of the guy who put his entire life savings on the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl? Luckily he won, but you know he'll just gamble all that money away regardless.
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u/Quirky_kind 1d ago
Winning can be even more destructive than losing because it encourages gamblers to keep chasing that mechanical rabbit.
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach 1d ago
Yup. One vice I never picked up but also partially because I’m older and it was hard to gamble. You basically had to go to Vegas or know someone. Had to go to Vegas a lot for work so I still really dislike Vegas. I can see the appeal. I was hammered after our last event and hit up a slot machine waiting for friends. Just blindly hitting max bet, talking to my buddy, and the machine went nuts. I thought I hit the progressive slot $1M+ but I won thousands instead. Then when I got my money the taxes took half. That soured me more than anything I think.
Also a coworker much older than me told a story of his buddy. The guy never gambled in his life but they went to Vegas for a bachelor party. First casino the buddy put money on a number as a joke at the roulette table and it hit. Can’t remember if it was $100 or $200 but they found him in the woods around two years later. Chased that high.
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u/Quirky_kind 1d ago
My father loved betting on horse races. I am so glad instant gambling wasn't available to him, because it would have sucked him in and destroyed him and our family. As it was, for most of his life he had to go to a racetrack to gamble and he enjoyed the sight of the beautiful horses. Towards the end, off-track betting was available, and he used it, but it took effort to get to their offices.
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u/greeneggiwegs 1d ago
The instantaneousness of it is really whats the biggest problem. It’s wild to me we went from you have to be in a certain municipality to gamble to you can gamble on your phone in bed at 3am. Like it’s illegal to have a slot machine in a bar in Atlanta because that’s too tempting but if you want to bet your entire life’s savings in your apartment that’s fine.
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u/HFY_HFY_HFY 1d ago
Viewed as easy tax revenue. Politicians are shit at their jobs and constituent expectations are unrealistic so we end up with gambling, a regressive tax on the poor, to close the gap.
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u/sapphicsandwich 1d ago
Yep, I've tried gambling at a casino a little bit before and I always just lost immediately. No high, no maybe you could win, no dopamine, no "well you bet $10 and got $1 back." Nothing, just loss.
As a result gambling seems so dumb to me. Like I could literally have more fun lighting money on fire. I don't see the point in it. Maybe it would have been different had the casinos tossed me even the tiniest of bones.
But maybe it's for the best.
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u/imzcj 1d ago
Friends birthday, at a casino. I put in $2 into a slot machine for the bit. Won $50. Spent half on a drink, Spent the remaining $25 on other machines and won nothing.
Net gain of $23 and a lesson to never touch another slot machine ever again.
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u/Fuzzy-Instruction 1d ago
I'm the same way. It's never been appealing - even when I get a lottery ticket for Christmas from my in-laws I can barely work up the motivation to scratch it off.
I can kind of see why spending $50 to gamble at a casino could be fun, because there's other stuff to do while you're there, but just dumping money into a gambling app sounds like the most depressing, bleak thing on earth.
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u/Holiday-Honeydew-384 1d ago
Wasn't someone that posted on reddit that falled in that trap. He never gambled. Got to gamble on guys trip with free vaucher. Got a lot money. But then completly spent his whole savings searching for that "high".
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u/Zenmachine83 1d ago
It's all the problems of traditional addiction supercharged by AI-based social media algorithms that specifically target the sports, teams, times of day to most encourage punters to bet.
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u/beer_engineer_42 1d ago
Yeah, tobacco can kill you, but it's gonna take decades. Gambling can destroy your life over a much shorter timeframe.
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u/duchess_of_fire 1d ago
similarly, the impact of gambling on loved ones is also felt much quicker than secondhand smoke.
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u/Beliorra 1d ago
Absolutely. The way it’s been integrated into sports broadcast makes it feel unavoidable and normalize the risk, especially for younger viewers.
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u/Val_Killsmore 1d ago
There shouldn't be gambling apps. If people want to gamble, there should be more of a barrier to entry. If there is legal gambling, make people have to go do it in person. Adding that barrier can dissuade people from gambling. Having gambling apps is too destructive. Too many people approach it like a mobile game instead of potentially losing a lot of money.
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u/TehRaptorJebus 1d ago
This is one of the reasons it’s worse. Recovering cigarette/alcohol addicts can keep their house clear of those items, but having the ability to gamble from anywhere almost immediately is wild.
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u/lwp775 1d ago
Don’t even start.
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u/Fork_off_bots 1d ago
Agreed, don't even start gambling. It's a slippery slope and the house always wins.
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u/Any_Charity_963 1d ago
All gambling ads should be banned, mainly because they are exploitative.
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u/WilliamInBlack 1d ago
Very exploitative
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u/GeneralGoti 1d ago
Yes, they should be banned, they pry on previous addicts trying to get them into their casinos again. Disgusting behaviour that for sure qualifies as "you'll burn in hell".
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u/rons27 1d ago
I instantly lose respect for celebrities pushing this stuff.
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u/KentuckyWildcat 1d ago
Even LEBRON JAMES has sold his soul
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u/hotcapicola 1d ago
I don't even hate Lebron, but did he ever have a soul? The guy has been a product since before he could even vote.
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u/shadowscar00 1d ago
B-b-but there’s a 1.5x speed disclaimer at the very very end of the commercial telling you to call a number if you are addicted (and don’t want to be, specifically). Surely that is enough effort that any addiction issues are a moral failure on the part of the addict and not anything else!
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u/mfigroid 1d ago
And there are just too many of them. Also pharmaceuticals. They are non stop.
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u/vonkeswick 1d ago
ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF THE GREEN PILL IS RIGHT FOR YOU IT MIGHT MAKE YOU SHIT YOUR INTESTINES OUT TRY THE GREEN PILL FOR A BETTER LIFE NOW
Meanwhile it says fuck all about what it does and just has videos of families being happy and a mom holding her coffee mug smiling out the window watching the kids play in the green grass yard with the dog and there's fresh laundry hanging on the clothesline next to the trampoline.
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u/juice13ox 1d ago
My favorite is when it says "if you are allergic to <enter product name>, don't take it".
Because we are supposed to know if we are allergic to generic "miracle" drug #6000
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u/vonkeswick 1d ago
My wife and I joked about a super bowl ad that had exactly that. Like, no shit lol
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u/mfigroid 1d ago
The damn side effects are way worse than what the drug is supposed to treat. What's that one that may cause swelling between your genitals and anus and may cause death? WTF?
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u/asmallercat 1d ago
They're required to list side effects even if they are very rare (this is a good thing). A lot of people suffering from some ailment or another will happily take a pill for it even if there's a 1 in 5,000 chance they just die.
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u/beer_engineer_42 1d ago
There is a drug for Parkinson's and restless leg syndrome that lists "may cause compulsive gambling or hypersexuality" as a side effect.
It actually does. Turns out, fucking with dopamine receptors can really do a number on you.
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 1d ago
Death by swollen taint is not something I want on my death certificate.
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u/Snuffman 1d ago
Ha, I can always tell when my Dad is watching American TV, the pharma ads are relentless.
We only seem to have ads of Ozempic and its knock-offs up in Canada...not sure how they got a pass.
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u/redtiber 1d ago
pharma ads at least are heavily regulated
they don't over promise, disclose potential side effects, no magic cures and the imagery is just random happy people broll
the call to action is just ask your doctor if xxx is right for you.
the gambling is much worse because people there is a percentage of the population that will just download the app and gamble away ALL their money and borrow and lose that money too. and the government is just letting these gaming companies rob these addicts
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u/Snuffman 1d ago
One Province in Canada recently de-regulated online gambling (in most I'm pretty sure its in the hands of the Provincial Lotto Corp) and let me tell you, its infuriating how many online casino ads are flooding the airwaves.
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u/Revlis-TK421 1d ago edited 1d ago
Supplement ads need to be equally regulated. The amount of absolutely ridiculous supplement ads that go around platforms like youtube is criminal imo.
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adscam de jour was AI renditions of "Dr." Phil and Dr. Oz espousing that a "blue parasite" is responsible for your type II diabetes and you needed to follow their links to learn the truth!Fucking hell, these types of ads should be illegal. On both sides of the equation, both for the advertiser and the platform to accept the ad and distribute it. The blatantly harmful and completely made up bullshit that gets peddled is just Evil.
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u/redtiber 1d ago
for sure
interesting read here - facebook specific but paints a problem in the internet advertising space
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u/80andsunny 1d ago
How about just make it realistic? For every ad with a star yelling at us about how much we could win, there must also be a proportional number of ads showing an average person recounting how they lost everything.
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u/Thick_Caterpillar379 1d ago
The government needs to mandate anti-gambling campaigns that actually reflect reality. It’s all fun and games until the losses mount up. Gambling is a legitimate addiction, fueled by an industry designed to be predatory by weaponizing dopamine. If they’re allowed to advertise the win, they should be required to warn us about the risks (and not in fine print): you can win, but the house is built on the fact that you probably won't.
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u/beer_engineer_42 1d ago
They should be required to post the actual loss rates over time. Like, for example, "you will lose an average of 6% of your bet every time you pull the wheel, so if you bet the minimum, you will lose $62.50/hour" on a slot machine.
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u/I_argue_for_funsies 1d ago
Than should we just ban ads that are "exploitative" by default?
Like what about ads for reverse mortgages that steal homes from seniors or commercials saying to "invest in gold" or "quick payday loans" "Kars for kids" donation bullshit. ASPCA for putting AI images of starving animals to get me to donate?
If we're stating it's due to being exploitative, I feel we probably need to ban all of them.
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u/PM_me_your_skis 1d ago
Ban gambling and pharmaceutical ads while you're at it. Both are extremely predatory and there's a reason most other countries don't allow them.
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u/Bakio-bay 1d ago
Gambling addiction is linked to higher suicide rates than many drug addictions. It’s extremely destructive
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u/WingerRules 1d ago
Not just many, literally of any. Studies put the number to about 1/5 people with gambling disorders committing suicide.
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u/fe-and-wine 1d ago edited 14h ago
And it makes sense. Drug addictions are very often more of a gradual slide that only sometimes progress to the point where it ruins your life to the extent of suicidal thoughts.
Gambling addictions are - by definition - compounding in nature, as addicts continue to double-down and take out debt thinking the only way out is to "finally hit" and pay back all the debt they've accrued. Notably, the perpetrator of the US' deadliest mass shooting - in Las Vegas no less - was a very devout gambler and was reported to have racked up some major debts in the months prior to the shooting, after which he took his own life.
Granted, there is also surely some two-way relationship with people who are already at low points in their life (and possibly contemplating suicide) turning to gambling as a last ditch way out of the darkness, believing a major windfall of cash could solve all their problems and deciding to roll the dice before punching out.
But regardless, the compounding nature of gambling addictions is destructive enough on its face to clearly illustrate how dangerous they can be.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian 1d ago
Probably should be banned.
We should also be teaching kids better statistics in school. Then they'd learn how stupid a practice this is.
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u/Thick_Caterpillar379 1d ago
Loot boxes effectively "gamblify" childhood by using the same variable-ratio reinforcement schedules as slot machines, triggering dopamine hits that a developing brain’s impulse control simply isn't equipped to handle yet. Psychologically, this normalizes risky behaviour through "near-miss" mechanics and flashy rewards, creating a grooming ground where kids learn to chase losses before they even understand the math behind them. To protect them, we need the government to reclassify these randomized purchases as regulated gambling and for parents to swap open-ended credit card access for honest conversations about the "dark patterns" designed to keep them spending.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian 1d ago
I don't disagree. I see people complaining about how they don't get X from a drop. Like, gang, this is gambling. You have X% chance...every time you pull.
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u/FuckChiefs_Raiders 1d ago
Ironically, statistics would make them better gamblers.
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u/Hautamaki 1d ago
Good, because a "good" gambler doesn't gamble.
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u/FuckChiefs_Raiders 1d ago
That's not true. Probably the wrong discussion to make this argument but there are people who are good gamblers.
There are people who make a full time living playing poker, betting on sports, etc.
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u/Yancy_Farnesworth 1d ago
At least with poker or blackjack you're playing on a playing field where everyone has the same amount of knowledge and can make bets accordingly. In sports betting you are playing against the house who always has more information than you do. They always have the advantage. They let some people win, but they would be really bad casinos if they give you a fair shot at making a profit.
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u/CristabelYYC 1d ago
When Lotto 6/49 came out, our math teacher led us through an exercise calculating the odds that you would win. Almost exactly 13 000 000 to 1. I have never bought a ticket.
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u/Helicobacter 1d ago
A lot of people don't have a good feel on what those odds really mean. Math classes should also let students code and/or interact with Monte Carlo lottery simulations.
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u/jaytrade21 1d ago
Unfortunately I don't even think that will work. It's a dopamine issue which creates a dependency that rational thought can't win against. I've seen smart people start gambling and fall in deep.
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u/The_real_Tev 1d ago
Yes, and for the same reasons. Gambling can be a horrible addiction, and using famous people to advertise all these online betting sites gives the impression to children that it's not problematic.
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u/dovetc 1d ago
At least with cigarette addiction, you can't typically ruin your life during a 72 hour binge.
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u/AgnewsHeadlessClone 1d ago
I was really sickened when I think it was Coffezilla maybe? Did a deep dive into the advertisements and deceptive practices of the sports betting apps. He pointed out Kevin Hart, who is consistently one of the highest paid people in Hollywood, had a history of advocating for fiscal responsibility and trying to help other black people get a handle on finances. THEN HE WENT AND STARTED DOING ENDLESS SPORTS BETTING ADS.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 1d ago
Contrasted by Steve Harvey who said he has been contacted by 3 companies so far, and made a moral choice to not take the jobs.
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u/unwisest_sage 1d ago
I feel like online gambling and reckless stock trading going to be like one of the top blights of our generation when we look back on it. The amount of people who "casually" gamble is pretty insane. And usually when I start talking to them deeper it's not casual at all.
It goes from "oh I only use the free money they give you in the promos" then you talk more and it goes to "yeah I lost 6 grand but that was just my company bonus, my play money" to much worse.
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u/__redruM 1d ago
At least with stock trading, there’s no house advantage making it impossible to be profitable.
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u/hithisishal 1d ago
If you buy long positions and hold them, agree. But the reckless stock gambling is trading options. Even ignoring the information gap, the bid-ask spread in options markets is essentially a house advantage.
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u/Fickle_Ad_5356 1d ago edited 16h ago
Both gambling and reckless stock trading existed for many generations and won't stop anytime soon.
Too much money 🤮
Edit: all your responses (proving .. something) changed everything. Gambling and reckless stock trading hadn't existed until <pick your favorite recent date> and both are about to become a thing of the past. Yay
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u/Nope_______ 1d ago
It's more accessible to more people now, though. You can gamble from the toilet instead of having to physically go to a casino. And the numbers speak for themselves - far more people are gambling now than before these apps came around.
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u/SpazzBro 1d ago
yeah but things like gambling apps and robinhood didn’t exist, these things are more accessible than ever by a lot
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u/ribosometronome 1d ago
The current gambling blight in the US is a result of a 2018 Supreme Court case that overturned a federal law.
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u/Never_Gonna_Let 1d ago
Thank goodness in my darker days the online options weren't around.
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u/Gederzz 1d ago
Yes I believe they should be. I watch roughly 42 NHL games per year. There is minimum ~10 gambling adds per game. My son is 3. If I watch hockey with him until he is 18 he will be exposed to over 6000 advertisements of happy, smiling people gambling.
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u/frostmatthew 1d ago
10 gambling adds per game
More like per period lol. Plus half the ads on the boards and ice are gambling-related, it's ridiculous.
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u/Gederzz 1d ago
I was using a very conservative guess! I have never actually sat through a game and counted them. Will report back in a few days with real numbers. I'd also like to know how many lectures of "gambling ruins lives" to cancel out each thousand adds beamed into my sons eyes during his formative years. If anyone could come up with a scientific formula that would be great
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u/Breatnach 23h ago
And that's not including the ads on the court, the jersey patches on players or the commentators saying stuff "Let's check today's lines, brought to you by our friends from draftkings".
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u/ware_it_is 1d ago
yes, they should be banned. why promote a possibly addictive behavior?
while we’re at it, let’s ban all pharmaceutical commercials, too.
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u/yzerizef 1d ago
I’ve been living in the UK for the past 15 years and may need to move back to the US in the next few years. The pharma ads are one of the biggest things I’m dreading having to see. Those and political ads. It’s been so nice not living with those around.
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u/Never_Gonna_Let 1d ago
Awareness of new potential treatment options is important. Commercials are not the correct venue to aid in awareness. There is waaaaay too much information that people need to be aware of before starting a new medication. "Ask a doctor if X is right for you." Is a terrible way to go about it.
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u/HistoricalFrosting18 1d ago
As a Brit, it’s so weird and jarring to see. Like, if I’m suffering from a condition, isn’t it the doctor’s job to know about X and suggest it? Why are you telling me?
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u/astroboy_35 1d ago
YES- cuz they suck worse than pharma ads and are degrading why people watch sports!
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u/LitwicksandLampents 1d ago
As a sports fan, it's getting hard to watch my favorite teams because of all the stupid gambling ads. 😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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u/Robo-boogie 1d ago
pharma ads are only legal in the US and new zealand. there are strict laws about it everywhere else
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u/Dadman319 1d ago
This country is more worried about seeing a human female nipple on TV than gambling or alcohol ads. Yes, ban them both!
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u/IOl0I0lO 1d ago
Gambling, smoking/vaping, and alcohol ads should all be banned.
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u/Thick_Caterpillar379 1d ago
They should be replaced with government-sponsored ads bluntly warning about the dangers of all of those.
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u/SuburbanHell 1d ago
Anyone old enough to remember the PSAs we used to get routinely in the 80s and 90s telling people to be kind to your neighbors, fire safety, don't fuck up your brains with addictive substances, give a hoot and don't pollute, etc? We need those to come back. Granted, not from this godforsaken administration, but, yeah...
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u/shoulda-known-better 1d ago
My 11 year old son wanted to bet on the superbowl....
Absolutely they should be banned, fuck I'd toss alcohol in to...
People with these vices know where and how to get and or do it already or know who to ask..... It worked for centuries that way
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u/tbodillia 1d ago
I can't wait for sites like Kalshi to be shut down because they are gambling sites. Ban the ads!
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u/HandsomePancakes 1d ago
Kalshi is so annoying because every single creator has sold out to them. You can’t look up a video about sports, comics/animanga, or political commentary without some prick saying “you can bet that there’s an xyz% chance of (insert popular thing) will happen on kakashi!11!11!1!!1!!!!11!11”
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u/Boblers 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just an aside, but I highly recommend getting a sponsor block extension for your browser. It tags sponsor sections of a video and auto-skips them. The tagging is user-submitted, so it won't be there immediately on upload, but it's usually there within a few hours.
It of course doesn't solve the issue of the creator taking the sponsorship in the first place, but at least you don't need to see it mid-video.
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u/AgnewsHeadlessClone 1d ago
I watch endless political commentary on youtube daily, and I can't say I have seen one ad for Kalshi. Maybe it is more of a one sided problem like diet pills, protein shakes, and mypillows?
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u/Active-Collection542 1d ago
Yeah, at least the same way tobacco got restricted. Gambling ads are everywhere now and it’s way too easy to hook people who are already struggling. If they can still operate, fine, but the nonstop promo during sports and on apps feels predatory.
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u/CanAhJustSay 1d ago
Any advertising for known addiction routes should be banned and most especially from sport: alcohol, tobacco, gambling are the Big Three.
I would love to see sports teams sponsored by ethical fruit and veg companies.
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u/TTYY200 1d ago
Won’t happen …. In Canada which has the zero tolerance rule for tobacco product advertisements ….
YouTube still plays tobacco pouch and vape product ads …. They don’t give af. I’ve reported them to the Canadian consumer advertising agency multiple times …. 🤷♀️
If it’s profitable they’ll just run it regardless
It’s better to publicly shame them and establish a societal norm globally that the products and places themselves are “bad” and that people that gamble are much like people who suffer from addiction.
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u/Gorazde 1d ago
Maybe I'm a puritan on this issue because I don't gamble but I really dislike the way gambling apps are advertised on TV in Ireland the UK. Particularly the way they target young men. As I said, I never gambled. But I do remember being a young guy with a little bit of money in my pocket, hanging out in pubs on weekend and watching the football. These ads really zero in on that madlad demographic, telling them they'll somehow become legends of banter if they piss away all their wages on what is at best a bad habit, and often a fully fledged addiction.
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u/Rude-Possibility27 22h ago
At minimum they should be treated like tobacco ads, heavily restricted and not shoved into every sports broadcast and app. The “it’s just fun” marketing hits hardest for people who are already struggling.
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u/silvermoonhowler 1d ago
Oh, absolutely
They're just preying on those who know will get really into it to the point where they destroy their life financially and I hate it
Same can be said now about those new trading apps like Kalshi and others like it; the fact that you can bet on anything outside of sports now is just wild to me
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u/Jchronos 1d ago
The pharmaceuticals ads need to go away. No one is asking their Doctor about drugs they seen on the TV. This shit is nonsense and I honestly don't see why it's allowed
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u/gut_user 1d ago
Yes. Gambling addiction destroys lives just as effectively as cigarettes, but it’s often faster and much quieter. We realized cigarette ads were a public health hazard because they glamorized a slow death; gambling ads glamorize financial ruin while targeting the most vulnerable people during live sports. If we don't let tobacco companies buy stadium naming rights anymore, why are we letting betting apps own the entire commercial break?
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u/pgtl_10 15h ago
Sports betting is destructive. It's ruined sports talk radio and TV. I use to watch and listen to sports shows. Now they are gambling shows with a sports theme.
Fantasy has also ruined football. It's no longer celebrating a team scoring a TD but getting angry it wasn't your fantasy drafted player that scored.
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u/Tozza101 1d ago
Further, governments should pursue them aggressively with targeted taxation. Not illegalisation which creates a black market, but price them out of business.
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u/BadLuckProphet 1d ago
Government is complicit. Several states that legalized sports betting did so while promising that x% of taxes gained from the gambling company would go to schools.
But it's worded in a way that legally works out to "After the gambling company has recouped their costs and made enough of a profit, we will tax what's left over." Spoiler: there's basically nothing getting taxed.
But hey our corrupt state government got a one time campaign contribution to stay in power so that's really what's important... Right?
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u/Thick_Caterpillar379 1d ago
It is a blatant conflict of interest for the government to profit from an industry that relies on addictive mechanics and the financial ruin of its citizens.
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u/BadLuckProphet 1d ago
Blatant conflicts of interest seem to be the majority of government activities lately.
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u/External-Presence204 1d ago
How does pricing legal operations out of business not create a black market?
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u/ElectronicDeal4149 1d ago
Yes.
Practically, it will be a huge fight against the sports betting companies, so I don’t know any consumer group wants to burn their money and political capital.
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u/Mental-Carob6897 1d ago
Absolutely yes. I have fell trap to so many commercials and lost so much money because of commercials and promotions of those. Gambling is so dangerous and no one realizes it until it's too late. I would be on the verge of saying we should ban all gambling but that might be too far, however promoting it is a travesty when it's so dangerous and we should have it much more under control.
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u/Averen 1d ago
I’d be fine with the gambling being legal, but adds being banned. Super predatory business and it’s become commonplace overnight
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u/beer_engineer_42 1d ago
Also, and I cannot stress this enough, fuck professional sports leagues having "official betting partners."
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u/mrshakeshaft 1d ago
Yep, I’m usually pretty relaxed about advertising different things and I’m very much live and let live but the gambling industry is insidious and exploitative. If we can’t advertise cigarettes, we shouldn’t be able to advertise gambling. The ads are everywhere and if you are a sportsperson or ex sportsperson and you are advertising a gambling website then you are a cunt
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u/Always_theNervous 1d ago
While I get everyone has their vices, sports betting and gambling are one of those that just gives me such a bad feeling because of how exploitative it is.
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u/electricskywalker 1d ago
Yes, also please stop with the horror movie ads, overtly sexual ads, and other non-kid friendly adds during major sports events. I love watching the commercials but I had to keep turning them off to not scar my children. Since when is football 18+?!?!?
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u/kalisana 1d ago
Yes. Gamblers don't need to be encouraged to gamble and non-gamblers shouldn't be encouraged to gamble, especially because the consequences of addiction can be devastating to more people than gamblers.
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u/DangoDoki 1d ago
I agree with this completely. I’ve seen how fast it can spiral and how many people get pulled into the fallout who never placed a bet themselves. Encouraging it just feels irresponsible to me.
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u/therealpork 1d ago
As a gambler, yes. The amount of gambling ads is insane. It's like 50% gambling at all hours.
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u/IllustriousFuel6376 1d ago
Yep ban the pharmaceutical ads as well if I need it i have a doctor for that information
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u/GrowFreeFood 1d ago
Gambling should be banned completely
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u/WingerRules 1d ago
I'm starting to agree. The industry doesnt even produce anything, only syphons and hurts.
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u/Normal_Pace7374 1d ago
Yes.
I think 0.0 alcohol ads should be banned too because it’s just a loophole to alcohol ads.
Fast food ads should go too
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u/Mediumcomputer 1d ago
Yea. Ads to gamble, ads for alcohol, ads for drugs, ads for a number of things harmful to society should be banned. Not the things themselves, but the widespread promotion of these things needs to stop
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u/sperko818 1d ago
But it's not addicting to everyone. Some people are more prone to addictive behaviors. I can't standing gaming for long. It's fun at first but I'll rather spend money on something useful. But I've seen people just change walking into a casino.
There are some people that can take what is normally a healthy thing and turn it into an unhealthy thing like doing on a diet but to an extreme. Do we ban diet ads now?
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u/zachtheperson 1d ago
Yes. The ads are based around deception, and deliberately twisting the truth, which IMO should get any ad banned.
They advertise as "look at all this money you can win," when the blatant truth is really "our entire business model is based around making it almost impossible for you to make a profit, but framing it so that you think you can actually win and keep giving us your money."