I found the world has more confusing captcha for foreigners...Like this Chinese captcha provider named TongDun. A Rubik's Cube like experience. Interesting.
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Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices
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> AirBNB doesn't want bots scraping their data They’re likely also trying to push users to their app.
Come to think of it, does GDPR apply to apps?
It applies to all data, no matter how it was collected, including manually and for employees, with some minor exceptions for small companies.
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Did you look at the capture? For cheese it was a camera not actual cheese.
I believe you failed the CAPTCHA. I assume the bottom right is the only correct answer.
Jeez you're right, how could I have overlooked the cheese?! I thought it was even worse than it is, assuming you're supposed to associate the camera with someone taking a picture and saying "cheese".
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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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What the fuck does summing dice together have to do with booking an Airbnb?
“If you cannot lift 100 lbs over your head, should you be operating a fork lift?”
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> paranoid In this case one (excluding "human fraud farms") and the other (excluding people who would work, but currently don't work, at human fraud farms) are the same thing. Not at all paranoid, in other words :)
That's not what is paranoid. OP was suggesting that they are deliberately trying to keep low-IQ people out as part of some elitist plot, and this is simply the best way to do it. Rather than the obvious boring reality which is that this is intended to keep low-skilled Indian captcha solvers out and as an unfortunate side effect also keeps low-IQ people out.
When you get to a certain level of smartness and responsibility you don't get to shrug and say "oh well I never saw this coming".
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> Look at Venice, which was a quaint little town nobody had ever heard of until Airbnb came long. Venice, Italy? Arguably the most popular tourist destination in Italy for... decades? Centuries? Airbnb might've exploded this popularity, but Venice has always been Italy's Disneyland. > look at Miami Beach. It's banned Airbnbs and short term rentals, and now housing there is incredibly affordable and not the most expen…
I was being ironic on both counts: Venice was overcrowded long before Airbnb, and Miami Beach is incredibly expensive despite Airbnb. The point is there are systemic issues of housing shortages - Airbnb is at best a manifestation of these symptoms, not a cause.
Gotcha. I invoke Poe's law :)
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what is paranoid. OP was suggesting that they are deliberately trying to keep low-IQ people out as part of some elitist plot, and this is simply the best way to do it. Rather than the obvious boring reality which is that this is intended to keep low-skilled Indian captcha solvers out and as an unfortunate side effect also keeps low-IQ people out.
When you get to a certain level of smartness and responsibility you don't get to shrug and say "oh well I never saw this coming".
Nobody is suggesting that they didn't see it coming. The conspiracy is that they wanted it to happen.
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It's not too uncommon for Japanese websites to use CAPTCHAs in hiragana, so you have to be able to type in はしらす or whatever
Assuming the content is in Japanese this is probably the expected result though. For international websites it would be good to follow the users chosen language. But if a website doesn't have a english version(or other alphabet based version), expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.
> expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.
As an American expat living in a country that doesn't speak English by default... I'd say it's fairly reasonable. Captchas aren't the responsibility of the site owner, the captcha integration docs should explain how to pass the language through to them and should require developers to do so.
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I use airbnb and booking.com specifically for searching cheaper alternatives to hotels. If their value for money proposition wasn't better than a hotel I doubt they would even exist at all.
Their value-to-money is better because the externalize all the cost to the local community where they remove supply and up the rent for what supply is left.
This sounds like a problem for local regulators and not Airbnb. We can't expect corporate actors to operate for much more than legally attained profits. They have a fiduciary duty to do so. And many localities do regulate Airbnb. In many cases locals vote for those regulators. Don't want corporate actors who optimize for wealth? Expect conditions far worse than a neighborhood with a bunch of Airbnb units.