GlassGambler Principles
That sentence is the entire product. Everything below explains how it's applied, and exactly how far enforcement reaches today.
Every limit in GlassGambler is written before a session, not during one. That's the whole design: the version of you deciding is the calm one, and the version of you playing inherits the decision instead of renegotiating it.
GlassGambler doesn't guess what a sensible limit is for you, and it doesn't nudge you toward playing more or less. It holds the boundaries you defined, exactly as you wrote them, everywhere it currently has control — your account and every device you sign in from.
Raising a limit, shortening a commitment period or overriding a stop is deliberately slow and never available mid-session. Making a commitment stricter works instantly, from any device, at any time.
Money you've earmarked for bills or for something you promised yourself is ring-fenced. Once you're ahead by enough to cover it, that amount stops being available to play with. It's a commitment to the rest of your life, enforced in the same way as any other.
Your Shield reflects commitments that held, not sessions you won. It moves when you leave at the point you chose beforehand, when protected money stayed protected, when a pause ran its course — whether the night finished up or down. It never moves because of money won. If something happened outside what we can currently enforce, that is a gap in our coverage for us to close, not a mark against you.
When a commitment is active, the app says precisely what you can and can't do, why it applies, and exactly when it ends. There are no surprise restrictions and no secret timers.
GlassGambler exists for adults of legal gambling age who have already decided to play and want their own boundaries respected. It doesn't promote gambling, suggest games, or present gambling as a way to make money.
GlassGambler is being built to physically enforce your precommitted exposure across the platforms and devices you gamble on. Today it enforces on your account and every device you sign in from, server-side; a self-exclusion, once started, cannot be shortened or lifted. For an operator we haven't built a connector for, direct operator enforcement is not yet active — a coverage boundary and the top of the engineering roadmap (operator connectors, payment controls, device and browser blocking), not a philosophical retreat. Until those land, operator self-exclusion and blocking software extend your wall further today; they're listed on the help page.
Coverage & enforcement status
The enforcement envelope is stated exactly, and it is expanding. Everything marked enforced is held server-side by GlassGambler, across every device you sign in from, and a self-exclusion once started cannot be shortened or lifted by anyone, including you. Everything marked in build is a coverage boundary we are closing — not an exception to your commitment.
Commitments are held server-side. Limits, commitment periods and protected allocations apply to the account itself, not to one screen.
A second phone or browser inherits the same active commitment. Signing in elsewhere does not create a fresh, looser plan.
Stricter limits apply instantly. Anything that would widen exposure is refused while a commitment is active and scheduled for after it ends.
Needs and wants are recorded as binding cash-out instructions and cannot be released back into bankroll mid-commitment.
Navigation and app-level blocking ship with the extension and mobile clients. Not active yet — use operator self-exclusion and blocking software meanwhile.
Direct operator enforcement is not yet active for third-party sites. Activity there is declared by you and counted against your commitment; physical blocking arrives with each connector.
Deposit interception and automated cash-out execution are roadmap targets. GlassGambler does not move or hold your money today.
If gambling has stopped feeling like a choice
Commitment enforcement is not a substitute for support. Crisis lines, counsellors and self-exclusion tools are on the help page, or email glasscannonlee@gmail.com and talk to a person.