Germany’s gambling regulation was built around a serious and defensible objective: players should be pushed towards legal, supervised and safer gambling environments. That principle is difficult to criticise in itself, because any functioning online gambling regime must protect consumers, identify risk behaviour and prevent operators from turning player vulnerability into commercial advantage. The uncomfortable question is whether the practical result of strict regulation always matches the stated objective, or whether some rules may unintentionally make the licensed market less attractive to the very players who should remain inside it....

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