The bane of betting apps everywhere!

6pack

6pack

ex-Mod
Anyone watching live cricket on JioCinema must have seen atleast 50 of these betting ads in just 2 days. One of the main sponsor of IPL is a betting app company. Plus lot of YT channel creators are pushing these ads a lot. Apparently they get a lot of money from such ads.
Saw this on YT and I have to say, these companies are like a menace to society. Govt might as well open up casinos in India if they allow such companies to exist. Might as well build our very own Las Vegas type city here. Any BJP guy here? Give Modi that idea.


I've got such sms etc on Google messages app a lot. I'm sure Google is the one pushing such useless ads to our phones. I had disabled data for messages app but every update the setting gets enabled.
 
Out govt. actively supports such crap. Instead of banning other shit they should first ban on making of such apps.
We have no protocol in this respect and thus every dom dick harry from every lane comes up with his own apps.
IT should heavily tax such earnings so much that people should stop using them. But govt. wants to loots the honest man not such biz people.
 
Emrebel said:
It is also sad to see how many ppl I have found addicted to these apps. They are one of the worst byproducts of the ipl.
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my neighbour's old mom has this problem. teen patti or some such card app. she came to me asking to tally up her gains/losses she had written down in a notebook. i said i don't know anything about this and ran away.
 
6pack said:
Anyone watching live cricket on JioCinema must have seen atleast 50 of these betting ads in just 2 days. One of the main sponsor of IPL is a betting app company. Plus lot of YT channel creators are pushing these ads a lot. Apparently they get a lot of money from such ads.
Saw this on YT and I have to say, these companies are like a menace to society. Govt might as well open up casinos in India if they allow such companies to exist. Might as well build our very own Las Vegas type city here. Any BJP guy here? Give Modi that idea.


I've got such sms etc on Google messages app a lot. I'm sure Google is the one pushing such useless ads to our phones. I had disabled data for messages app but every update the setting gets enabled.
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I see this BS even on apps like Cred. "Spin the wheel and win this many Rummy/Poker points".

Such Horseshit.
 
Gpay gives out a lot of "rewards" for dream11, rummy and other such betting apps. Easy way to trap unsuspecting victims who play for a few times because it was just their "winning" they are betting with. That is how it begins for quite a few.
 
I see ads for these apps in metros and buses too.

Our society would either pretend this problem doesn't exist or straight up ban everything instead of laying down proper rules and regulations.

These apps are worse than casinos. They can monitor your behaviour and keep luring you in based on data they have gathered by offering you free coins etc. You can walk away from slot machine. You can't walk away from your phone.


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A psychiatrist tried to quit gambling. Betting apps kept her hooked.

While Kavita Fischer sank deeper into six-figure losses, companies kept her going with bonus credits, VIP treatment and data tracking.
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