Gambling ads for gambling addicts
This might be the most surprising example. Sure, people who are looking for an app to help with recovery to gambling addiction are probably interested in gambling. They’re too interested in it. That’s the problem, which is probably why it’s poor form to advertise it to them. But here we are, with an ad for the gambling app Jackpot World, seen on the page for the gambling addiction recovery app RecoverMe.
Apple, and Jackpot World, for that matter, probably didn’t do this on purpose. The system likely just showed the ad because it had the word gambling on it. Still, it’s the kind of problem you could have seen coming.
This was found by someone with the Twitter handle @hot_doggin_jon, which may be the first time those words have appeared together in the media. Hopefully it won’t be the last.
