AirBnB Authorizes Monitoring Devices That Are Totally Not Creepy at All

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re traveling as 4 people or less and staying less than a week, just go for a hotel. Less hassle, reasonable expectation of consistency wherever you go, housekeeping and breakfast included, and no outrageous fees.

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are a lot of hotels where you can get apartment-esque amenities without the bullshit. They’ve made efforts to make hotels feel more at home and it’s nice.

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    • ButtDrugs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The only thing missing from hotels is a private common area for groups. If they had more hotels with 2/3 bedrooms around a living space I would never airbnb again.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man just jack off directly onto it.

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• sugartits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just stay at a hotel.

  Similar price, no bullshit cleaning instructions (then cleaning fees on top), no immoral monitoring, consistent experience.

  AirBnB was at best a cute gimmick for a few years. Now it’s a measurably worse experience.

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  • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The idea of “I’ve got a spare room that I’ll briefly rent out for cheap” is nice, but as all nice things, it inevitably gets ruined by twats on all sides. Likewise with ridesharing apps that could serve the use case “I’m heading that way, maybe someone needs a ride that way too”, but end up a shadier version of Taxis.

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• MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My partner and I both carry two phones - personal and work. Can’t wait to get kicked out of an AirBnB due to having too many phones on the premises.

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  • thenightisdark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are many problems with Airbnb, but let’s be fair no one’s getting kicked out for having four phones.

    It’s a straw man argument to say that this is Mot for the places that end up with 25 phones.

    This is an attempt to keep party houses under control. I can see how one could argue for and/or against this but let’s be clear what it’s about. 👍😁

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My dude, you’re treating the slippery slope like a water park, face first

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• flumph@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A recent pilot in Prague enabled Hosts on Airbnb to trial Minut noise sensors, and found a reminder can be all that’s needed for a potential noise issue to be quickly resolved

  If a reminder is all that’s needed, the device could be an offline decibel meter that lights up when the volume exceeds a threshold.

  Plus I’m sure parents are going to love their phone blowing up when little Billy is a bit too cranky at bed time.

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m never using Airbnb again. This device is a crutch for wannabe hoteliers who don’t know what hospitality is.

  The prices on Airbnb aren’t much different from real hotels, and there’s way less of a gamble with a hotel brand that can’t just delete their user profile and create a new one tomorrow after a bad review.

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  • Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Recently I’ve been finding hotels at a lower cost than airBNB.

    yea, I’ll take the nicer room, downtown, without a load of cleaning fees

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Airbnb can neither allow nor disallow them, because it is all up to the law - in Germany, that is.

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• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  HEY EVERYBODY LOOK CAPITALISM GAVE US THE SURVEILLANCE STATE JSUT LIKE THEY SAID SOCIALISM WOULD

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