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 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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