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I find it difficult to watch any sports these days because you are just constantly bombarded with sports betting ads and tie-ins. I have absolutely no interest

I find it difficult to watch any sports these days because you are just constantly bombarded with sports betting ads and tie-ins. I have absolutely no interest in throwing my money away on sports bets and yet even I find myself wondering if I should try it out or maybe I could just open a trial account. It's dangerous and disappointing that this is the direction that all the major sports leagues are heading.

xuki 3y ago
We need a real life adblock.
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago
  Disabling the center channel of a surround sound system usually will kill the commentary during sporting events. Gets rid of it in a decent chunk of commercials too.
- Fuzzwah 3y ago
  That's called regulation. Proven to work many times over.
  - serf 3y ago
    regulation is impotent when it targets industry specifics rather than regulating adversarial psychology elements and the behaviors themselves. it's a nice feel-good political ticket for would-be politicians, but all it does is create an arms race whack-a-mole condition for every single new industry that pops up and requires new regulation. considering gambling : in the U.S. we outlaw new forms of gambling all day, but never dare to touch concepts that empower the gambling like addictive behavior psychology, short-term high-interest legal loan-sharking, whatever. We just ban the specific sports-bet-whatever and wait for the next one to sprout up, it's largely ineffective, that's why we're still talking about it.
  - xuki 3y ago
    Not just for gambling ads, all ads. Something like the Vision Pro but as unintrusive as normal glasses today and running an open platform.
imbnwa 3y ago
I'm rather surprised at the return on spending on inline ads by gambling houses considering how much paperwork/fructuib there is setting up a DraftKings account on the spot.
add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
I agree. I don't have a moral problem with sports betting but it's not only commercial breaks, it's completely invaded the content itself. Sports commentary has become inseparable from betting and though I have no temptation, every minute of the content feels like predatory advertising. It's not fun anymore.
chiefalchemist 3y ago
I sometimes listen to sport's radio and sometimes - too often - it's unlistenable. Too much focus on betting and no enough on the actual sports. I cringe when the shows' hosts talking about their personal betting.
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xuki 3y ago

We need a real life adblock.

Mountain_Skies 3y ago
Disabling the center channel of a surround sound system usually will kill the commentary during sporting events. Gets rid of it in a decent chunk of commercials too.
Fuzzwah 3y ago
That's called regulation. Proven to work many times over.
- serf 3y ago
  regulation is impotent when it targets industry specifics rather than regulating adversarial psychology elements and the behaviors themselves. it's a nice feel-good political ticket for would-be politicians, but all it does is create an arms race whack-a-mole condition for every single new industry that pops up and requires new regulation. considering gambling : in the U.S. we outlaw new forms of gambling all day, but never dare to touch concepts that empower the gambling like addictive behavior psychology, short-term high-interest legal loan-sharking, whatever. We just ban the specific sports-bet-whatever and wait for the next one to sprout up, it's largely ineffective, that's why we're still talking about it.
- xuki 3y ago
  Not just for gambling ads, all ads. Something like the Vision Pro but as unintrusive as normal glasses today and running an open platform.

imbnwa 3y ago

I'm rather surprised at the return on spending on inline ads by gambling houses considering how much paperwork/fructuib there is setting up a DraftKings account on the spot.

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

I agree. I don't have a moral problem with sports betting but it's not only commercial breaks, it's completely invaded the content itself. Sports commentary has become inseparable from betting and though I have no temptation, every minute of the content feels like predatory advertising. It's not fun anymore.

chiefalchemist 3y ago

I sometimes listen to sport's radio and sometimes - too often - it's unlistenable. Too much focus on betting and no enough on the actual sports. I cringe when the shows' hosts talking about their personal betting.

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