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iwwr
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Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam.
Last I checked, MTurk still accepted only US credit cards. This puts a dent in the potential size of the ecosystem.
If the purpose is dirt-cheap labor, they should open up the door to markets where $cents matter.
thetable
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I'm pretty sure I recently used a non-US credit card to pay for MTurk. They require you live in the US, but they don't seem to verify that.
iwwr
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They verify for valid zip codes and they prune false addresses from time to time. You have to lie to Amazon, or know someone in the US.
eru
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You can work from everywhere. You just have to have a US credit card to pay somebody.
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If the purpose is dirt-cheap labor, they should open up the door to markets where $cents matter.