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> Mailboxes, fire hydrants, Trams are not recognizable for billions of people. Cheese is though? And I'm pretty sure most of the world would recognise those things anyway - you forget how much American culture is spread through films and TV.
Did you look at the capture? For cheese it was a camera not actual cheese.
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What's wrong with sharing bathrooms? That's a dorm, or a youth hostel for that matter. It's totally fine. Pretty common all over the world, not just for the poorest.
Given the choice, I don't think anyone would spend their lives living in a dorm or youth hostel, or a homeless shelter, or a tenement block with communal facilities that would rapidly fall into disrepair (I mean, look at the state of various housing projects and slumlord setups now and imagine if the same setup with communal bathrooms would actually be better kept than that).
OP is literally encourages this behavior by solving those captchas. The right way is to say "fuck you" and use another service.
But until this day I was happy with the service provided, never had a bad surprise, and my profile is very shiny with good reviews from everywhere I stayed, alone or with my (young) kids so I never have problem to book any place I go.
But maybe it's time to try other services
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Why would you be _more_ averse to sharing a bathroom if you're low income? I think it's more about American germophobia or new members of the middle class feeling that sharing bathrooms is beneath them now that they've made it. In most places being poor doesn't mean you live in squalor, it just means you have less money. You are still doing your best to keep your place clean etc. And obviously your neighbours won't b…
Privacy? The original point, although not fully written out, was that the elite schooled grandfather thought it would be more effective to build housing with shared bathrooms, but he neglected the humane aspect(s) of living. Somewhat ironically you are falling into that same model of thinking.
There are obviously people who absolutely don't want to share a bathroom with their neighbour, but the "model of thinking" that is the issue is when you're projecting that onto the entire world population. People just have different priorities.
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The grandfathers point was that shared bathrooms would decrease costs of building new apartments, which is good for poor people with less income. Needing to share a bathroom with someone is no problem compared to not having a place to stay.
So would sleeping halls. Both models exists, yet in the developed world we tend to see either as a worst case crisis accommodation not as a viable alternative for long term accommodation. So yes, it solves problems in those places where lack of any accommodation is a big housing problem. That is important, but it affects a relatively small proportion even of the homeless (most homeless are not "rough sleepers" who en…
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> AirBNB doesn't want bots scraping their data They’re likely also trying to push users to their app.
I've never understood this concept. Reddit is the worst, though at least you can argue that they probably have all the figures to back up the idea that engagement is much higher when they push someone onto the app. For a travel app which you are only using a few times a year I can't imagine this holds. It seems like it's product managers justifying their investment in the native applications in a lot of cases.
Captchas are often used to prevent credential stuffing where an attacker has a list of email addresses and passwords and runs a script to try those out on different sites. They also help prevent password brute force, i.e. an attacker has your email and tries the top 100 passwords to crack your account. There are other ways to tackle this, for example email OTP where a code (or link) is emailed to you before you login…
And as another user said in this thread that there are even extensions which can break captchas. Very questionable then what captchas are even doing on web.
You use both ABP and uBlock Origin? Why?
With default conf, sometimes one doesn't block what the other blocks.
Maybe if I spend time tuning and configuring them one will be enough.
At this very moment, I'm on a page where both block 1 thing, not the same
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>Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I have met a few, yes, including people who are intellectually limited (colloquially called "dumb"), people who were born or acquired mental handicaps, people who are suffering most likely suffering from dyscalculia (dyslexia for arithmetic/numbers). E.g. we think my grandma might have had a milder form of the latter, as she had a lot of trouble adding up numbers i…
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