[LINK] Gambling industry seeking to promote sports betting via websites

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 08:45 +1100, Tom Worthington quoted spam:
> we would like to integrate a dofollow link
> [...]
> We are also happy either to have the article written by you
> [...]
> it is NOT meant the article to be marked as an advertisement,
> promotion, advertorial etc.

They are seeking to put undeclared advertising in editorial and are
prepared to pay for it. Nothing different to what the commercial TV
channels do every day, as much as Media Watch rails against it...

Although I doubt even Channel 7 does it for spammers - I suspect that
from a spammer you would never see a cent.

Also, if you put a link in your article, they can change it any time,
and unless you are checking constantly, you won't know that you have
started advertising porn, or homeopathy, or neo-nazism...

Regards, K.

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