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Why not? Are they afraid of users from low-income countries flooding the site?


Yes, and that you get a lot of tasks that you can't prosecute their origin. For example (off the top of my head) solving captchas, cracking passwords, doxing, hacking offers etc. I think there was also the spectre of organized crime enslaving people to do the tasks and taking the profits.




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