Reported in the Guardian today – Starting today, gambling ads will be introduced for Google UK (excluding Northern Ireland).
“Web users in Great Britain will be the first in the world to see gambling ads on Google since 2004, when the US search engine giant introduced a global ban,” the Guardian writes, and later adds that Google’s “relaxation of gambling advertising follows new UK rules introduced last September under the Gambling Act 2005 allowing betting ads to run on TV around sports events and after the 9pm watershed.”
Gambling ads are classified as non-family friendly though, Google says, so they won’t show when SafeSearch is enabled.
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