The ethical implications of our media’s promotion of sports betting are profound, and TV hosts giving advice on bets is dangerous ground. As CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, media outlets in Canada have been eagerly taking all this action they can get, especially since most other advertising has long since fled to Google and Facebook.
When watching sports on tv, half the ads are for sports betting. It’s disgusting.
I don’t even watch sports and I get buried in gambling ads.
Only started after moving to a somewhat struggling blue collar town, but it was immediate, and the pure volume of it was shocking. Really hit me wrong.
Adblock and VPN everywhere possible now. Degoogling, containerized browsing, hardened settings, like damn basic privacy shouldn’t have to be so much work.