Data Sources

How we check a source

1. Open the original document, not a summary, and record the date we read it.
2. Record the publication or update date the source shows, or "no date shown".
3. Copy quotations exactly and link to the page that holds them.
4. Prefer the regulator, the standard or the official guidance over news coverage or law firm summaries.
5. Where we can only read a reproduction of an official text, such as a code published by a legal information site, we say so in the source name.

What we do not use

We do not use operator marketing as evidence, unattributed statistics, paid placements, affiliate feeds or survey figures we cannot trace to a published method. We do not publish drop-off or conversion figures, because we have no measured data to support them.

Rechecks

Rules change, sometimes within weeks: the Gambling Commission's deposit limit changes, for example, came in two stages with an extended date. When a cited source changes, we recheck every page that cites it. All sources below were read on October 27, 2026.

Every source cited on this site

AGCO

• Gaming site access and minimum age requirements, no date shown.
• Limit Setting Features, Standard 2.23 amended February 2022.
• Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming: Responsible Gambling, sections last updated May 14, 2026.

AUSTRAC

• Strengthened customer identification procedures for online gambling service providers, no date shown.

Australian Communications and Media Authority

• BetStop, no date shown.

Australian Government

• BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, no date shown.

Competition and Markets Authority

• CMA to boost consumer and business confidence as new consumer protection regime comes into force, published April 7, 2025.
• Online Choice Architecture: How digital design can harm competition and consumers, published April 5, 2022.
• Online gambling (case page), case opened 2016, closed 2019.

Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection

• How old do I have to be?, no date shown.

Department of Infrastructure (Australia)

• Credit card ban, no date shown.

Department of Social Services (Australia)

• Gambling reforms, no date shown.
• Information about online gambling regulation, no date shown.

Federal Trade Commission

• Bringing Dark Patterns to Light, September 15, 2022.
• Bringing Dark Patterns to Light, staff report (PDF), September 2022.
• FTC Report Shows Rise in Sophisticated Dark Patterns Designed to Trick and Trap Consumers, September 15, 2022.

GAMSTOP

• Self-exclusion from online gambling, no date shown.

GOV.UK Design System

• Error message, no date shown.

GamCare

• What support do we provide?, no date shown.

GambleAware (Behavioural Insights Team)

• Remote interventions: anchoring report (full trial report), March 2021.

GambleAware (research by the Behavioural Insights Team)

• Applying behavioural insights to design better safer gambling tools Part 1: Anchoring, March 2021.

Gambling Commission

• Changes to customer-led tools - financial limits, published October 23, 2025, updated May 26, 2026.
• Gambling Commission announces package of changes which make online games safer by design, published February 2, 2021, updated August 6, 2021.
• Gambling and young people, updated June 3, 2021.
• Gambling on credit cards to be banned from April 2020, published January 14, 2020, updated August 12, 2021.
• Implementation extension for new deposit limit requirements, published May 26, 2026.
• New age and identity verification rules - changes to the LCCP from Tuesday 7 May, published May 3, 2019, updated August 27, 2021.
• New deposit limit rules provide clarity for consumers, published October 7, 2025.

Gambling Help Online

• Immediate help, no date shown.

Government of Ontario

• How to make websites accessible, updated September 21, 2026.

Justia (New Jersey Administrative Code)

• N.J.A.C. 13:69O-1.2 Responsible gaming (Justia reproduction), current through June 16, 2025.

NCPG

• 1-800-MY-RESET announcement, January 29, 2026.

New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement

• Online responsible gaming rule text, N.J.A.C. 13:69O-1.2A (proposed new section), file dated October 19, 2026, proposed rules folder; adoption not confirmed.

U.S. Department of Justice

• Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA (businesses, Title III), March 18, 2022.

W3C

• MathML version of the relative luminance definition, no date shown.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, W3C Recommendation, December 12, 2024.

W3C WAI

• Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum), updated September 6, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 2.5.5: Target Size (Enhanced), updated September 6, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 2.5.8: Target Size (Minimum), updated May 11, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 3.2.6: Consistent Help, updated March 9, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 3.3.1: Error Identification, updated June 12, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 3.3.7: Redundant Entry, updated September 17, 2025.
• Understanding Success Criterion 3.3.8: Accessible Authentication (Minimum), updated September 6, 2026.
• Understanding Success Criterion 4.1.3: Status Messages, updated May 11, 2026.
• User Notification (Forms Tutorial), updated June 3, 2022.

iGaming Ontario

• Find help, modified May 14, 2026.