Online Casinos in general: IP - Blocking starts on Friday also for affiliates

Justin wrote on 06/29/2022 at 2:09 pm

The new German regulator, informed it will start blocking IP addresses and payments for unlicensed sites - and possibly affiliates promoting those sites - starting Friday, with more details to be announced a week after the policy goes into effect.

That's the rough translation, of the introduction to an article I just read.
Doesn't sound good for overseas casinos, but it doesn't sound good for GJ and all the other affiliates either.

Here is the English article: https://bit.ly/3bvToI9

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Matthias wrote on 29.06.2022 at 15:15: Hello Justin and hello community,

i can well imagine that the mentioned IP blockade is causing some unrest among all of you and therefore I would like to quickly comment on the topic.

For those of you who don't immediately know what IP blocking means, here's a brief explanation:
Theoretically, it is possible that authorities from Germany ask all German Internet providers to block individual IP addresses or the call of certain domains.
If you then try to access GambleJoe.com, you may get a message from your Provider that access from your country is prohibited. Of course, you can circumvent this blockade with a free VPN program, which is already integrated into the Opera browser. This would allow access to blocked pages.

On the topic of gambling authorities and affiliates:
We are currently in dialogue with the German gambling authority on how to best implement the requirements of the State Gambling Treaty. The principle applies that only licensed providers may advertise, but until recently there was not a single gambling license issued. Conversely, this would have meant that we would have had to remove all providers with an EU license from our site, which would have been neither economically viable nor feasible.

The goal of the State Gambling Treaty is to steer gambling into the "orderly and regulated market".
GambleJoe is basically the iDEAL platform for this - as you know, we are a damn big community and here in the forum you can honestly exchange opinions about the pros and cons of gambling providers.
We explicitly promote only casinos with MGA license, as well as the newly licensed German gambling providers.
Non-licensed casinos, such as those from Curacaó are not advertised by us.
We are ready to adapt to the market and I myself suggested to the authority to fly to Germany to have a frank personal conversation with the authority's staff, so that we can talk together about the implementation of the requirements.
At GambleJoe, our goal is to set a good example in the Affiliate business - and even to be a trendsetter that other affiliates can follow.

This is one of the reasons why we have filled up our gaming arcade top list with the new licensed gambling providers, right on the respective start or launch date of the new online gaming arcades.
And from our point of view, a gambling house with a German gambling license is first of all better (because safer in terms of banks etc.), than a gambling house (which complies with the regulations), but which has not received the license yet
This is why these providers are at the top of our GambleJoe gambling arcades list, and why we support channeling them into the legal market. If there were more licensed providers, they would have been listed on our comparison platform long ago.

Since we are currently still waiting for a response from the gambling authority, I personally can't imagine that the sledgehammer method will now be applied and GambleJoe will immediately end up on the "IP block list".
Blocking GambleJoe would in the end only lead to thousands of players getting lost on other affiliate sites every month, which just advertise unlicensed providers or curacaó casinos without regard to losses or the state treaty.
This makes no sense from the point of view of player channeling.

Have a nice rest of the week together - if there is anything new, we will inform you as soon as possible!

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RebellYell wrote on 29.06.2022 at 16:06: So if all casinos are like the two that are listed here so far with German license...Then good night. Hardly any games, really bad RTPs and on top of that the 5 sec rule and taxes.

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Royal777 wrote on 29.06.2022 at 16:12
Meanwhile, there are 4 casinos, but even there the game selection is severely limited. In addition, the casino "TipWin" requires a mandatory bank account for account Verification, there is also a query with Schufa. Casino customers who only have an e-wallet will probably no longer be accepted in the future...

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