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Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

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Post by latexr »

> We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site, we will assume that you are happy with it.

You are likely violating the GDPR. You can’t just assume consent (that applies to other areas of life), that’s the whole point.

Either you only use cookies which are essential for basic usage—in which case you don’t even need to tell users about it—or you need to provide a way to refuse everything else which has to be at least as easy as the way to accept.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#102

Post by dash2 »

latexr wrote: post #101

> We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site, we will assume that you are happy with it. You are likely violating the GDPR. You can’t just assume consent (that applies to other areas of life), that’s the whole point. Either you only use cookies which are essential for basic usage—in which case you don’t even need to tell users about it—or you need to…

God I hate the GDPR with a passion. The amount of time I've wasted clicking those stupid popups.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#103

Post by latexr »

dash2 wrote: post #102
latexr wrote: post #101

> We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site, we will assume that you are happy with it. You are likely violating the GDPR. You can’t just assume consent (that applies to other areas of life), that’s the whole point. Either you only use cookies which are essential for basic usage—in which case you don’t even need to tell users about it—or you need to…

God I hate the GDPR with a passion. The amount of time I've wasted clicking those stupid popups.

That hate is entirely misguided, and an indication of how far you’re been tricked by the ones violating your data.

It’s as if companies had been pissing in your beer for decades, then a law passed saying you could only do that with consent, and now you’re complaining that there are all these consent forms every time you want to drink your pissed beer instead of taking it as an indicator to buy from another brand.

If anything, the GDPR should have been more aggressive and made all extraneous data collection outright illegal with no option to opt-in. As it stands, it’s still a powerful indicator of those you cannot trust, letting you know as soon as you open their website.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#104

Post by raffael_de »

sschueller wrote: post #86
yunesj wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eliminate them.

Self censorship resulting from pressures from the likes of Visa, MasterCard, Google Play and Apple's App store when the law doesn't forbid it. This is the problem when the world is run by monopolies. Laws don't mean anything, companies effectively make them.

I'm pretty sure payment providers aren't the reason why Couchers decided to ban those offerings.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#106

Post by raffael_de »

nabramow wrote: post #77
jonp888 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternatives to Couchsurfing.com such as BeWelcome and WarmShowers have been around for many years, decades even and have users counts into 6 figures. They've remained non-corporate but never managed to reach mainstream popularity like Couchsurfing.com did. What are you hoping to achieve by launching another hospitality sharing site that the other established non-profit sites couldn't?

Couchers Frontend Team Lead here. Aapeli is out for the night so I'm popping in to answer from my POV. I think the main difference is that we're trying to capture the spirit of what CouchSurfing.com used to be: modern, easy to use, welcoming to newbies and centered on genuine social connection. But we also want to go beyond that. Build for today’s world—with better safety tools, better moderation, and more community-…

I cannot select England, Northern Ireland, Great Britain ... as a visited region. Those countries are not listed.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#107

Post by getlawgdon »

muppetman wrote: post #76
daft_pink wrote: post #10

I hosted couchsurfers and it was fun, but i stopped when i started getting detailed reviews about random shit about my home after people left. Letting people live in your house in the central business district of a top tier city and then having them comment on your towel designs. It’s not a hotel. I’m so over it.

Can we please see a photo of the towel(s) I'm too invested in this now.

"...and upon reaching for a hand towel I realized that the motif on it was not a diagonal pattern of dog bones but without doubt actually row after slanted row of penises, 100%"

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#108

Post by akudha »

madaxe_again wrote: post #87
daft_pink wrote: post #10

I hosted couchsurfers and it was fun, but i stopped when i started getting detailed reviews about random shit about my home after people left. Letting people live in your house in the central business district of a top tier city and then having them comment on your towel designs. It’s not a hotel. I’m so over it.

This is just hospitality reviews 101. I run a couple of Airbnbs in the uk - 99.9% of guests leave gushing reviews, 0.01% break open locked cupboards and are like “There was a cupboard FULL of cleaning supplies! Disgusting! 1/5!”. I’ve even had people bring a plastic rat with them and pose it around the apartment to then complain to customer service - successfully. That one cost me about £5,000 in a refund, lost reven…

Some people are just plain...weird? I was reading reviews of some book on Amazon (can't remember which one now). Someone gave the book a one star review, because "it was delivered two days later than it was promised" while simultaneously saying they haven't read the book. How is it the book's/author's fault that Amazon delivered the book late? Why are they giving lowest rating for a book without even reading it? None of this makes any sense

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#109

Post by losvedir »

latexr wrote: post #103
dash2 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God I hate the GDPR with a passion. The amount of time I've wasted clicking those stupid popups.

That hate is entirely misguided, and an indication of how far you’re been tricked by the ones violating your data. It’s as if companies had been pissing in your beer for decades, then a law passed saying you could only do that with consent, and now you’re complaining that there are all these consent forms every time you want to drink your pissed beer instead of taking it as an indicator to buy from another brand. If…

I disagree with the framing of "pissing in beer". To me it's more like companies have been giving me hot coffee for decades and now every time I get one they have to tell me, "careful! It's hot!" Like, yeah, I know, just give me the dang coffee.

Re: Couchers is officially out of beta

#110

Post by gosub100 »

madaxe_again wrote: post #87
daft_pink wrote: post #10

I hosted couchsurfers and it was fun, but i stopped when i started getting detailed reviews about random shit about my home after people left. Letting people live in your house in the central business district of a top tier city and then having them comment on your towel designs. It’s not a hotel. I’m so over it.

This is just hospitality reviews 101. I run a couple of Airbnbs in the uk - 99.9% of guests leave gushing reviews, 0.01% break open locked cupboards and are like “There was a cupboard FULL of cleaning supplies! Disgusting! 1/5!”. I’ve even had people bring a plastic rat with them and pose it around the apartment to then complain to customer service - successfully. That one cost me about £5,000 in a refund, lost reven…

Just consider it a tax on the amount of damage your business did to local housing costs.
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