Re: Possible measures to stop online gambling addiction.

But we as users can prevent ourselves from experiencing fraud and one of them is looking for casino sites on this forum. It would be better than searching for casinos that are out there, especially from search engines. And if we really want to stop gambling or reduce our gambling addiction, we must continue to try to avoid seeing advertisements that will appear when we are online. Maybe we can limit ourselves to browsing the internet and activate the features in our browsers or social media so that we don't see casino advertisements. It is true that the government will find it difficult to block these new and old casinos, but we must try not to just rely on the government. We must be responsible for what we do and if that means we really want to stop gambling, we must be able to avoid everything related to gambling and have an activity to divert our attention from gambling.

Blocking all the advertising related to casinos while you are online seems like an impossible task, we must not forget that companies like Google or Facebook track your activity online, and if you have shown on the past a great deal of interest on gambling you can be sure they are going to serve you those ads hoping you click on them.

And while there is nothing wrong with that when you are a regular gambler, if you want to leave gambling behind each ad that you see will tempt you to go back to your old ways, and given enough time it will happen.

For Google, when I clear my browser's cookies and history, I won't get an ad anymore related to what I previously searched. We can also hard reset our gadgets if that didn't work. For Facebook, maybe there is a settings about how we see an ad or related to our activity. There should be an option of clearing them and that should be able to fix things, however there is no way to completely stop seeing gambling contents.

Even if you say to quit being online, you can still see them one day on the TV, radio, newspapers, etc... It was only an ad anyway. It shouldn't be totally tempting than if you are already inside the casino, so we shouldn't worry too much.

So you think that deleting cookies and restarting your devices will make Big Tech stop bothering you, huh? Those are just the most obvious answers. If you look deeper, you'll see that the monitoring is about a lot more than just a cookie. Google and Facebook do keep track of everything you do and click on. Still, you're right that gambling ads are everywhere. They're like vultures looking for a meal. Yes, TV, radio, and newspapers are all involved and part of the machine.

But the real challenge isn't avoiding ads; it's figuring out how the gambling business works behind the scenes. This is more than just a game. It's a planned way to take advantage of people who are weak. But sure, they say, "it's just an ad." Remember that each ad is a part of their bigger plan Tongue