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lsmodon Lost considerable amount in Freelancer.com

Oh, man. Sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to me a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15625028

Fortunately, I had direct contact with the client and he paid me through an online payment platform. My client had used a bank account from a different country than the country listed on his freelancer account. They banned his account without even notifying him. I couldn't even reach him through their platform.

Read through the comments on the parent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624677 Specially this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626790

And stay away from freelancer.com. You can always find new clients there, but contact them directly after that becasue, obviously they don't have any kind of protection for us so, why should we pay some additional fees if we are going to get screwed anyway ?

Good Luck!

lsmodon BitGrail lost $170M because only client-side validation was used

php has nothing to do with it. Can't say the same for the second part though.

lsmodon Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin

If you use Firefox then you can just enter the "Reader View".

lsmodon Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages

"Must Only Be Used for Critical Service Notifications." [0]

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108#section-3.1

lsmodon Firefox Quantum

Use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine, then you can use the "Bang"[0] notation to search using other services.

[0]https://duckduckgo.com/bang

lsmodon Firefox Quantum

Visit "about:preferences#search" and then uncheck every search engine under "One-Click Search Engines" list.

lsmodon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Thanks for the reply. I might give this a try.

lsmodon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

This is a legitimate claim. You might wanna take a look at this[0]. I've blocked out the project title and the buyer's name, becasue i don't want my real name associate with my HN handle.

Dark Red: Buyer's Name

Turquoise: Project Title

[0]https://i.imgur.com/LpTYbse.jpg

P.S.

Not sure how you got the "unpaid advertisement" idea from my original comment. That is a complete opposite of an advertisement. However, it advertises the fact that you can get work done for free. Maybe that's what you are trying to say :)

lsmodon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Thanks for the reply.

They have a registered office located in Australia.

It was a relatively easy job (took me about an hour and a half) and I only charge $75. So, not sure if it'll be worth the hassle.

lsmodon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Same with Freelancer.com, buyer had this[0] green icon next to his profile. Evidently, it doesn't work as you might expect.

[0]https://pasteboard.co/GS6oamJ.png

lsmodon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Stay away from Freelancer.com

They reversed two milestone payments i had received, becasue they had to suspend the buyer's account due to some issues with the buyer's payment method. Note that this is after completing the project fully and leaving feedback for each other.

I left the money on my Freelancer account, becasue they are/were having issues with Skrill withdrawals. It was there for about a month and they suddenly reversed both payments at the end of the last month.

They should validate/verify payments before accepting/processing them, not after a month after completing a project.

Basically, i just did a job for free. no one's going to pay for my time. they have 0 seller protection.

BTW, buyer had this[0] green icon next to his profile. Evidently, it doesn't work as you might expect.

[0]https://pasteboard.co/GS6oamJ.png

lsmodon AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say

Actually, you can make money by solving captchas. https://2captcha.com/make-money-online

lsmodon The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key

It looks like they have fixed it (at least some part of it)

"Access Denied. File must be attached to a posted filing to be available."

lsmodon Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

Removed.

lsmodon Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

Thanks for the reply. it has been a while and i don't even remember the username of that account.it wasn't that important to me (plus, a relatively new account) so i didn't bother contacting HN.

lsmodon Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

Be careful posting random domains.HN might flag/throttle your account for spamming.happened to one of my accounts.

lsmodon Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems

Thanks for the recommendation. faster than "space sniffer" as well.

lsmodon Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

They gonna have to build more parking spaces.

lsmodon Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

It's not the same.you'll be missing some of the trackers.

lsmodon Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'

"An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead."

lsmodon Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses That Sue Their Customers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65dfO8vZTA&list=PLkVbIsAWN2...