I genuinely hate how much gambling is becoming a major industry here and how much more gambling advertising I'm seeing
The Philippines has been doing this big push to become a haven for companies operating as offshore gambling hubs mostly targeting the mainland Chinese market - companies based and operating here but targeting gamblers in China, as a regulatory dodge since gambling is totally banned there - but it's absolutely leaking into the local market too, the gambling regulator is absolutely becoming less strict, and I'm seeing so many ads for gambling here, basically all the ads I see that slip past my adblockers
It's definitely becoming a corruption issue and organized crime thing too it's just been such a disaster all around