[ericra]

I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago.

I was astounded by the amount of online gambling ads just literally pasted everywhere in Toronto. When I got YouTube ads, a huge percentage was for these. They were pasted over the whole body of streetcars and in transit stations throughout the city.

I don't know much about the current status in the U.S., but Ontario at least seems to be completely infected by gambling ads. They must be making insane amounts of money off exploiting people's gambling addictions, as well as creating new addictions daily.

[nozzlegear]

> I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago.

Just for clarification, do you mean you were astounded by the amount of ads in Toronto? Or in the US?

> I don't know much about the current status in the U.S., but Ontario at least seems to be completely infected by gambling ads.

I just live in a small farm town, so I'm not really exposed to ads or billboards in my daily life. Online gambling ads aren't in our local newspapers yet, at least.

[ericra]

Sorry that I wasn't clear. This was in Toronto. I've yet to see quite as many such ads here in the US, but it's possible they were just pushed out by political ads during this period.

[boosting6889]

My hypothesis is that the disenfranchised young men complaining that they don’t have enough money because of inflation have really just been blowing their money on online sports gambling and refuse to admit it.