these popups has genuinely gotten out of hnd

BillThornes

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ok so. logged into bet365 last night for the first time in like three weeks. deposited £40. before i even got to pick a game i got a popup asking if my gambling is "in balance with other life priorities"
hadn't placed a bet yet​
hadn't been on the site in three weeks​
£40​

this is where we are now
 
yup mate betfair did the same to me i just had lunch break at work, deposited a tenner, got something like "are you sure you want to be playing right now" on my own phone with my own money during my own lunch break. at this rate they'll want to know what i had for breakfast to continue lol
 
i actually stopped using two sites because of the popups. sounds dramatic but they stressed me out more than any loss did. felt watched the entire session
 
this is the point though. it's not about helping you. every time you click continue playing on those popups you're confirming a behavioral datapoint. session length, time of day, deposit frequency, stake size, all going somewhere. and once that infrastructure exists for gambling it exists for other applications. digital ID has been in the pipeline for years and the behavioral profiling architecture is already being built under player protection framing
 
there's a real tension here that both of you are partly right about. the regulations came in because actual harm was happening at scale. the problem is the implementation is blunt. it doesn't distinguish between someone three weeks clear depositing £40 and someone in real crisis. same popup, same friction, same intrusion for completely different situations
 
even setting aside the sinister angle, these systems ARE collecting detailed behavioral data. session timing, stake patterns, deposit velocity, all sitting in a database. government adjacent databases get breached constantly. nhs data, tax records. who has access to your detailed gambling behavioral profile when it goes wrong is a legitimate question
 
I think data collection is real and worth scrutinising under GDPR. But the practical problem right now though is that this friction is pushing recreational players toward unlicensed offshore sites with zero consumer protection. The cure is measurably accelerating the disease.
 
yup this is what happened to me i moved a chunk of my play offshore last year. no popups, no source of wealth requests, no cooling off periods. also no recourse if they close with my bslance but you weigh it up
 
but i dont WANT to go offshore. jeez i just want toplay on a legal site with proper licence without being treated like a suspect for depositing forty quid
 
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