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Does anybody know why Bulma has a large number of gambling companies sponsoring it? If you look at the sponsor list you will see a huge portion is gambling related. Does it offer something that that industry finds particularly valuable?

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I think it's more that they provide backlinks. If you're a gambling company this is pretty much the only way you can advertise in the US.

It is also some illegal casinos which target the Swedish market "utan spelpaus" means that it is a casino which ignores the Swedish anti-addiction self block. And "utan svensk licens" means that they do not have a Swedish gambling licence.

Which, funnily enough, is expanded on in no less than three[1][2][3] dedicated websites that are essentially called "Casino-Without-Swedish-License" in various ways, and are also linked as sponsors on the bulma.io website.

[1] - casinoutansvensklicens dot co

[2] - utansvensklicens dot casino

[3] - casino-utan-svensk-licens dot com

Funnily enough, the main case is getting cheap reputable backlinks for those companies

I did not realize this until now, thanks for pointing it out. I will have to find an alternative because explaining to clients that I use software that openly and prolifically “sells out” to casinos isn’t something I want to spend my time doing

Daft question, but if you hadn't realised, then your client's obviously asked that question yet (and might not)?

Open source needs to find a way to make money and backlinks is a reasonable way of doing it. I should say for my own open source project I refuse backlinks to gambling sites on morality grounds though - although looking at how much revenue it might bring in on a monthly basis, there is a lot of temptation there.

In my mind, it’s one thing to omit information I don’t know but another to withhold information

It's a bunch of CSS convenience classes, you haven't stumbled upon the panama papers here.

Agreed, but I’m free to curate the tools I use based on whatever criteria I want.

Sure, if you have the privilege to make your life unnecessarily harder than it is, then choosing another CSS framework based on whether it has shady sponsors or not is a great pastime.

I was gonna make a jokey comment, but I’m seriously at a loss for words. This is the most overtorqued ridiculous take I’ve read all week. Who cares who else is using the free libraries that you’re using?

They are paying sponsors, not consumers. You should read the rest of the comments about these specific gambling organizations and their motives.

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