GamStop is the national online self-exclusion scheme for Great Britain, run by the National Online Self-Exclusion Scheme Limited, a not-for-profit company, which lets a person register once to be excluded from every online operator licensed by the Gambling Commission for six months, one year or five years. Participation has been a licence condition for all remote licensees since March 2020, the scheme reports several hundred thousand registrations, and it works with GamCare and Gamban in the TalkBanStop partnership offering blocking software alongside exclusion.
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Euromat puts Europe's illegal online market at €12 billion and says it has tripled since 2019. The Betting and Gaming Council promotes a separate report putting the global figure at $50 billion. The two numbers cannot be compared, both were commissioned by interested parties, and both reach the same conclusion about what enforcement is doing wrong.
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The UK Gambling Commission has accused Meta of profit seeking at the expense of player safety, claiming the social media giant allows illegal casinos to bypass British self exclusion schemes. Tim Miller warned that the regulator will use new powers and millions in funding to make the black market commercially toxic for all involved.
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