Australian xiellenial here, 12 years ago I taught at tafe and I reckon about half the class was on gambling apps. I was shocked as none of my peers use them AFAIK.
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Australian millennial checking in, when I was young ‘nobody’ my age made bets on sports, like maybe 5% of the population. Gamblimg ads were heavily regulated as were gaming organizations.
The gambling ads for tipping and online betting and gambling apps have ramped up and online gambling was allowed to flourish with relaxed regulations. Taking us to the current state of affairs where they are unavoidable, and gambling companies are major sponsors of all our sports events.
The current youth now have a huge problem with gambling.
theguardian.com/…/a-massive-public-health-problem…
Push back hard if you can on mobile gambling in your neck of the woods, because once the government gets addicted to the revenue and the ‘corporate events’ they are very disinterested in reeling it back.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 days ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 days ago
Brazilian under a similar situation. Gambling and casinos are illegal within the entire country, but in 2018 online gambling/casinos were allowed to run ads everywhere. Every other week there’d be a new betting site throwing ads on every TV channel and tiktok/instagram influencer. Some regulation started showing up last year, people on Bolsa Familia (govt money for people in extreme poverty) were dumping that money straight into the gambling sites, but it’s too little, too late. A significant portion of the political right is now being
bribedlobbied to legalize casinos again, “It’z gun generert jerbs and tworism!!!”