Hi
Well its a difficult one but the answer lies in your relationship with the sites that you use. You shouldnt get many if you limit your use and make a point of not visiting sites that carry these ads.
Which sites do you use?...perhaps you are better than these sites?...I just find many of them.... especially social media shallow and pointless. I visit sites that dont bombard me with advertising. If I try and read something about computer games for an example I close the page....I dont need their videos and advertising all over the page...newspaper pages can be the worst and therefore I dont need their articles
Delete cookies and try and reset any relationships. I just use an online auction site, occasionally you tube( which can get bad) and general reference material. I dont really get them on computer but I do catch some on television and I reach for the remote as soon as possible.
Yes its scandalous but you build pride in a recovery by doing as much as you can to avoid them. Complain if you want to as the more voices the better.
They wash over me now...I just feel saddened that they are still there but I cant let them affect my mental health.
Best wishes from everyone on the forum
I was wondering the same thing. I use you tube a lot as I post videos as well as watching them and there are ALWAYS gambling ads on. I don't listen to them but just the fact that they come up is bad. I love watching football but even then, ads before and during and after the game on gambling are so many so I try and watch just before kick off and turn off at half time and full time.
I think if you installed gambling blocking software then the ads don't show but it goes off from the site that you are using.
Hi
Well its a difficult one but the answer lies in your relationship with the sites that you use. You shouldnt get many if you limit your use and make a point of not visiting sites that carry these ads.
Which sites do you use?...perhaps you are better than these sites?...I just find many of them.... especially social media shallow and pointless. I visit sites that dont bombard me with advertising. If I try and read something about computer games for an example I close the page....I dont need their videos and advertising all over the page...newspaper pages can be the worst and therefore I dont need their articles
Delete cookies and try and reset any relationships. I just use an online auction site, occasionally you tube( which can get bad) and general reference material. I dont really get them on computer but I do catch some on television and I reach for the remote as soon as possible.
Yes its scandalous but you build pride in a recovery by doing as much as you can to avoid them. Complain if you want to as the more voices the better.
They wash over me now...I just feel saddened that they are still there but I cant let them affect my mental health.
Best wishes from everyone on the forum
Thanks for your reply. I haven't visited any gambling sites for 63 days, is that what you were referring to?
I have to use to use social media and YouTube for my job so sadly I can't avoid them. I've removed all cookies and even gone to the extent of delating google history within my profile, clearing YouTube search and watch history, setup ad blockers on browsers where possible. If an ad pops up I mark it as spam in the hope it changes the content I'm shown in future.
Adverts don't bother me so much anymore but what does bother me is I recently showed a YouTube video on my phone to others and of course a gambling ad popped up.
I read an article on the guardian dated december 2020 and it states that they are aiming in the next year for google to let users opt out of gambling and alcohol ads.
So may not be fully possible now but positive step to hope for over the next year.
Louloux
That will be brilliant if it ever happens!
