Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:51AM (#30414750)

Wait are you really suggesting that the Airbnb programmers thought "guys, we need to stop low-IQ people from using our site"?? That's crazy.

> explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out "low-skilled workers" on "human fraud farms"

Uhm yeah. They're trying to keep people from human fraud farms (who happen to be low-skilled workers) out. It's not a weird elitist conspiracy to keep all low-IQ people from society out.

Why is HN so full of paranoid conspiracy theories?

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by vidarh on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:56AM (#30414790)

How do you think they distinguish a low-skilled worker working for a human fraud farm from a low-skilled worker not working for a human fraud farm?

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:32PM (#30419046)

I don't. We're talking about intent.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by jsnell on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:18AM (#30415013)

They don't need to distinguish between those cases. They just need to make the cost of solving the captchas (either automatically or by paying a farm of low-skilled workers to solve them) higher than the value of the abuse.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by vidarh on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:32AM (#30415146)

Missing the point, which is that unless you can distinguish, then an action that stops low-skilled workers from getting through will stop those people whether or not they're doing it for fraud or because they're a genuine customer.

It's probably not their intent to stop the latter, but the effect is still discriminatory.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by krageon on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:00AM (#30415420)

> 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 :)

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:36PM (#30419093)

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.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by krageon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:17AM (#30425271)

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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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by IshKebab on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:15AM (#30425666)

Nobody is suggesting that they didn't see it coming. The conspiracy is that they wanted it to happen.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by reaperducer on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:42AM (#30417070)

Why is HN so full of paranoid conspiracy theories?

Because many of us have been to this rodeo before.

The history of the tech industry has no shortage of thought leaders, heroes, and jabbering masses with low morals and feet on both sides of the eugenics theory.

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