I worked with it for a while and if I was in a position to leave that industry I would have done it sooner. But I do have to say that at least the sports betting companies I worked on they did try their hardest to follow the law as much as possible.
One thing I have to say is that it is abhorrent that betting websites are allowed to advertise at all. It should be threated the same as smoking ads regulations.
Well that absolves them now, doesn't it?
The world where the gambler stops gambling doesn't exist.
No illegal alternative necessary, the players of this app get zero odds and payouts.
gherkinnn is saying that just because it is legal does not mean that the people behind the company are free of responsibility for the damage their app creates.
Casually ignoring that a large amount of gambling addicts have stopped gambling.
Also, just because people are addicted and it's not illegal doesn't make it morally right. You're still financially benefitting from their addiction.
These online casinos aren't simply complicit in their gambling addiction they are actively fueling it trying to optimize the addictiveness of their platform.
There is no excuse for invading people's lives with unasked for media of any kind.
People who want to know about new products can go to places where such information is available and seek it out.
and those would shine with a "just the facts ma'am" approach.
As a counterpoint, %99 of the ads I see are companies I already know about. I'm seeing the ads of same services of the same set of companies every year since I got a smartphone. Ads are just manipulation through creating familiarity through repetition.
There's a similar concept in legal contracts, with "unconscionable" terms.