Twitch has expanded its list of banned websites to include Blaze and Gamdom.

Blaze and Gamdom are now on Twitch's blacklist of banned gambling websites. Its policy shift from last year is the basis for this.

Gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more may all be streamed live by this interactive service.

In order to "protect its community" (from gambling-related ills), "address predatory behaviour," and "make Twitch a safer place," it has banned gambling sites.

Gambling viewership dropped 75% after Twitch updated its policy to exclude streams of specific sites that contain slots, roulette, or dice games, indicating that the new policy is effective.

"This meant the change had an immediate impact, and that our community has been better protected from scams and related harms," tweeted a Twitch spokesperson in response to the policy upgrade that reduced gambler viewership by 75%.

We have seen some new patterns since then, thus in order to keep our community safe, we are revising our list of banned sites. That the policy keeps effectively preventing harm is crucial.

In September 2022, Twitch began evaluating their gambling policy and in October of the same year, it went into effect.

Nonetheless, Twitch will still allow connections that centre on sports betting, fantasy sports, and poker, even though the sharing of links or referral codes to gambling sites is banned.

According to a Twitch official, the company has been actively examining gambling content since their last policy change and it has been a major topic of conversation in the community.

We have seen that some individuals are finding ways to bypass our regulations and put our community at risk, even though we forbid the sharing of links or referral codes to any site that offers slot machines, roulette, or dice games.

On October 18, we will be updating our policies to make it illegal to broadcast gambling sites that do not have a licence to offer games like slots, roulette, or dice that are not licenced in the US or other consumer-friendly nations.

Sites like Roobet.com, Stake.com, Rollbit.com, and Duelbits.com will be part of this. But we might find more as we go ahead.