What it blocks

It is not just the sportsbooks any more.

The money leaves the same way whatever the app calls itself. Amblee treats these the same, and shows you what each one actually cost you.

Sportsbooks
DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, ESPN Bet, bet365 and the rest.
Casinos and slots
Including the sweepstakes apps that insist they are not casinos.
Prediction markets
Kalshi, Polymarket, PredictIt. A market is still a bet.
Memecoins and degen trading
pump.fun, BullX, Photon and friends. Long-term investing accounts are deliberately left alone.
Daily fantasy and pick’em
PrizePicks, Underdog. The ones that feel like skill.
The new front

Prediction markets are the new front.

Kalshi and Polymarket are not licensed as sportsbooks and they do not look like them. The numbers say they are being used as one.

Share of US betting-app installs73.5%

Kalshi and Polymarket together. DraftKings took 13.7%, FanDuel 8.9%.

Apptopia, June 17 2026. Installs June 1 to 15, 2026.
Combined monthly volume, April 2026$24B

About. Kalshi and Polymarket were under $5B a month in September 2025. Legal US sportsbooks took roughly $14B a month in 2025.

Pew Research Center, May 27 2026.
Of Kalshi’s volume80%

is sports contracts. Call it a market if you like. The money leaves the same way.

Pew Research Center, May 27 2026.
What this means for a blocker

A blocklist built around sportsbooks now misses three-quarters of new betting-app installs. Amblee blocks prediction markets today.

Left alone

What it deliberately leaves alone.

You choose the apps that go behind the block. Amblee’s guidance and its web filter stop at the venues above, and never touch the places your money is meant to go.

Long-term brokerage and retirement accounts

Your brokerage, your IRA, your 401(k) app. Investing is where the money is supposed to end up, so it stays open.

Banking apps

Your bank, your credit union, your savings account. If you connect one, Amblee reads it through Plaid. It is never blocked.

The apps you use to move money to yourself

The deal only works if paying yourself is always possible. Whatever you use to make the transfer stays out of the block.

Web

The browser is covered too.

Deleting the app and opening the site in Safari is the oldest workaround there is.

Amblee’s domain filter blocks the same venues in Safari and the other browsers on your phone, alongside the apps. One deposit lifts both, and both re-arm on the 1st.

Apple’s Screen Time API caps an app’s web filter at 50 domains. Amblee spends those slots on the sites you add yourself first, then fills the rest from its own list. Add a site and it takes priority over the defaults.

The urge passes. The deposit stays.

Pick the apps. Set one number. Show the money moved. The apps open.

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