Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals
#HackerNews #Spain #Airbnb #Fine #Illegal #Rentals #Government #Action
John Siracusa
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Just when I thought it was impossible to make a placeholder-that-turns-into-a-label any dumber, Airbnb proved me wrong.
Just when I thought it was impossible to make a placeholder-that-turns-into-a-label any dumber, Airbnb proved me wrong.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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For some time (2 - 3 yrs?) I've worried about the "veteran tech" folks who've taken senior roles at Mozilla.
Putting folks from #Google, #MS, #Salesforce, #Airbnb, #Meta, etc in charge seems antithetical to Mozilla's mission of "building a better internet."
I'd installed FF when Google was paying users to install FF circa 2005.*
And after 20 years, I switched to Vivaldi early this year.
* Haven't found much info about this bounty program except for a Slashdot post in 2005:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/05/1436226/google-paying-for-firefox-installs
EDIT: much more info about the referral program here
https://leonidasv.com/til-google-paid-websites-for-referring-firefox/
I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.
We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.
Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷♀️
For some time (2 - 3 yrs?) I've worried about the "veteran tech" folks who've taken senior roles at Mozilla.
Putting folks from #Google, #MS, #Salesforce, #Airbnb, #Meta, etc in charge seems antithetical to Mozilla's mission of "building a better internet."
I'd installed FF when Google was paying users to install FF circa 2005.*
And after 20 years, I switched to Vivaldi early this year.
* Haven't found much info about this bounty program except for a Slashdot post in 2005:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/05/1436226/google-paying-for-firefox-installs
EDIT: much more info about the referral program here
https://leonidasv.com/til-google-paid-websites-for-referring-firefox/
Nicolas Fressengeas
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"l’ensemble des comptes ouverts chez les fournisseurs américains ( #Amazon, #Airbnb, #Netflix, #Paypal, etc.) sont immédiatement fermés. Les sociétés de livraison dont le capital est américain cessent de livrer les #colis commandés…une réservation hôtelière prise pour un séjour en France a été bloquée par la plateforme Expedia, …l’interruption possible des moyens de paiement qui transitent par les réseaux #Visa ou #Mastercard [et] virements bancaires via … #WesternUnion".
cc @fresseng
Quand les sanctions internationales émises par Washington imposent une vie déconnectée à un magistrat français
> Suite à un décret de Donald Trump contre la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), le juge français Nicolas Guillou n'a plus le droit d'accéder aux services numériques de certaines firmes américaines.
"l’ensemble des comptes ouverts chez les fournisseurs américains ( #Amazon, #Airbnb, #Netflix, #Paypal, etc.) sont immédiatement fermés. Les sociétés de livraison dont le capital est américain cessent de livrer les #colis commandés…une réservation hôtelière prise pour un séjour en France a été bloquée par la plateforme Expedia, …l’interruption possible des moyens de paiement qui transitent par les réseaux #Visa ou #Mastercard [et] virements bancaires via … #WesternUnion".
cc @fresseng
I've deleted my #Airbnb account over their sponsorship of the #ReformParty conference.
(Yes I know I should have done this over their listings in occupied West Bank areas or their effect on rents in tourist areas, I haven't used them in years, just never got around to closing the thing.)
Airbnb issued a better-than-expected outlook for the third quarter as it saw encouraging summer travel demand, but warned that growth rates may not keep up later this year due to tough year-ago comparisons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/07/tech/airbnb-outlook-growth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #airbnb #tourism #tech
Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
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Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
Deactivated my #AirBnB account.
I already deleted my Amazon account stuff.
#BDSMovement #BoycottAirBnB #GenocideProfiteers #Capitalism #BoycottFascismProfiteers
Interdire AirBnB en Europe : Dan Jørgensen n’exclut pas cette hypothèse
https://projetarcadie.com/interdire-airbnb-pas-exclu/#DirectPE#AirBnB#Logement