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submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

AirBnB Authorizes Monitoring Devices That Are Totally Not Creepy at All::Minut – know exactly what your guests are up to 24/7 with the new and discreet telescreen.

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[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 years ago

Man just jack off directly onto it.

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years 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.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years 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.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago

And with that, I think my time using Airbnb is officially over. Don't get me wrong, this is far from the only reason, but hotels are already basically the same price (often cheaper) and come with so much less drama and privacy issues.

I've got two trips booked on Airbnb over the next year, I'll probably keep both, but I won't be booking any future trips

[-] sup4sonik2@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

how's your time officially over if you're still using it over the next year lol

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not booking any new trips? It's for the solar eclipse, and bookings in the area I want to see it in are already getting scarce, so no sense in missing out on that rare experience just to screw Airbnb out of $100 (or whatever their cut is)

[-] flumph@programming.dev 36 points 2 years 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.

[-] MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years 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.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years 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.

[-] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

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

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