Gambling ads for horse racing have really stepped up a level, with seeing nicely dressed and groomed attractive men at a racecourse cheering on their favourite horse, well the one they hope will win.
However, I am fed up with seeing the ads on YouTube and after a quick search, I found I can get rid of them.
This works for YouTube if you are using Google and logged in. Go here, https://myadcenter.google.com/customize and click the 'Sensitive' tab.
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Thanks for that link. I've hopefully removed all the so called personal ads. I'm sure they'll get to me some other way
ReplyDeleteFun60, that's quite possible. We will see down the line, but did you turn dating off?
DeleteI thought I would have to pay to remove ads. Will have to try this out, thanks Andrew.
ReplyDeleteIt may help with some ads Sami. I have no interest in horse racing but I am bombarded by gambling ads.
DeleteThank youi so much for sharing this information, Andrew!
ReplyDeleteJust to help a few Linda.
DeleteHmm, I never see such ads. You must have stumbled into a logarithm.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a stumble Kirk. I have no interest and only ever looked in the past at gambling for our annual Melbourne Cup. The algorithm gets it wrong so often.
DeleteThank you for the link which I will use straight away. I don't ever gamble so it is not to prevent a personal problem, but I hate to see those beautifully groomed punters on tv, all of them screaming with pleasure at having picked the winner!
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DeleteHels, I would not have bothered looking if not for all the gambling ads I am forced to endure. As an event, I don't begrudge it being a great Melbourne festival. On Derby Day, there were so many handsome men dressed in black suits for the black and white dress code. The women were mixed, some looking gorgeous and some looking like tarts, with far more breast exposed than I care for. I was on a train to the zoo and I saw one woman in her thirties who was not a 10/10 with her looks, but she still looked so elegant, with perfectly subtle makeup, a beautiful dress and heels. She changed trains at North Melbourne and carried herself so well. I really wanted to tell her how good she looked.
DeleteI think there are so many right now because of the Melbourne cup race which is tomorrow, there should be fewer after that. Although other gamblings ads will still be shown. On youtube look for the little "skip" triangle in the bottom right corner and click on that to skip the ad.
ReplyDeleteRiver, yes, but this avalanche of gambling ads has been happening to me for months, and I don't have a clue why. Believe me, I am watching for the skip to come up constantly for any ad.
DeleteThanks for that, very handy to know. I pay for YouTube, hate ads and we also get the Music free of ads and so on.
ReplyDeleteI've come across no horse racing ads as yet on any platform.
Margaret, obviously I don't pay and I know that there is an indirect cost of having ads on YouTube. I wish I knew why I am targeted with gambling ads.
DeleteThe well dressed young bucks with their ladies in posh frocks cavorting around near the track makes a change from the old fella in a trilby with a ciggy in his mouth hanging around the on course bookie in the betting ring.
ReplyDeleteYes Cathy, I know the image of the old punter so well. The Cup has always had well dressed folk though, although very different to now.
DeleteInteresting. I must try that little wheeze.
ReplyDeleteWheeze JayCee? I don't know that term in context. You are not suffering from a wheezing catarrh are you?
DeleteBritish slang, a "wheeze" is an informal term for a clever idea, plan, or trick.
DeleteIt is often used in the phrase "a good wheeze" to describe an ingenious or amusing scheme, especially one intended to gain an advantage or save effort.
Examples of usage include:
"He came up with a clever wheeze to get around the problem".
"That seems like a good wheeze to get free tickets!".
The term originated in 19th-century theatre slang, where a "wheeze" was a joke or comic gag that an actor would repeat frequently. It later developed the broader, general slang meaning of a frequently used "trick or dodge".
I know most British slang, but this one I missed. "A clever wheeze to get around a problem", explains the term well.
DeleteGood advice, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteThank you, JB.
DeleteI just 'skip' but have not been bothered by gambling adverts.
ReplyDeleteThelma, I skip where I can but it isn't always possible.
DeleteWe have a state election on Tuesday, everything is political ads right now.
ReplyDeleteTP, I can imagine.
DeleteGambling has never appealed to me. I won $20 on blackjack on my sole trip to the casino on the bet where the odds are even and stopped when I was ahead. My mother's mother was a Methodist church organist for over 50 years and maybe the algorithm has picked this up in some way because I am rarely troubled by such rubbish. Thanks for the tip all the same.
ReplyDeleteMC, I am pleased your mother's spirit still has an influence to keep you away from gambling, the demon drink and wild women.
DeleteThis is interesting. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHelpful for some perhaps ME.
DeleteI'm not a gambler, thank goodness, but there are so many gambling ads on all the sports shows here, it's disgusting.
ReplyDeletePixie, there has been talk of getting rid of gambling advertising at sporting events, but it has allowed to become so big, sports are now very dependant on the revenue.
DeleteOh I wish it were so easy to get rid of them on the likes of Pluto TV. It's a free channel TV off Roku. Every other ad promotes gambling app games, many pushed by celebs. Download it! No ads! They're all casino type phone games.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, that's awful. Gambling hits the poorest the hardest.
DeleteI have never been a gambler but have heard stories of lives destroyed by this addiction. Here online gambling is all the rage. I am not tempted but you see countless popular sports figures advertising sites that show ecstatic people winning big time. They rave about how quickly that money goes in their accounts. Easy money, super fast!
ReplyDeleteAny sensible person knows how dumb that is.
Most outrageous to me is that these organizations pay colleges big money to advertise their sites on campus.
They are predatory businesses despite their disengenuous little notices at the end of any advertisement, a link to Gamblers Anonymous, "should gambling become a problem."
What BS.
It is the same here Debby, with destroyed lives. I haven't seen celebrity endorsement here, and I think there would be a hate on such celebs if they did that.
DeleteOur advertisers' addenda is 'You are more likely to lose'.
Oh, that's handy. To be honest I don't even notice the ads on YouTube. I just skip right past them as soon as possible. God only knows what they're trying to sell me.
ReplyDeleteThe gambling ads are quite intrusive in that they begin loudly. Otherwise, I don't take much notice. They are much worse if watching YouTube on tv, rather than a device.
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