"Lots" is already ambiguous, so I'm not sure what you're expecting. I've worked remotely for 8 years and spend half my time in Airbnbs. If you go to meet ups or nightlife with other expats, you'll find many others doing the same.
They just need to discount the price enough to get a few people willing to take a risk and write the first reviews.
I live in Airbnbs for half of the year, so occasionally I'll take a gamble on an unreviewed place with good pictures and a well written listing. So far I've almost always had a good experience with a 40-60% discount relative to comparable listings.
I love OSM and use it all the time for hiking, but even though their restaurant and hotel listings have good coverage, they're sadly not much use to me without the reviews.
Short of scraping reviews from Google and importing them into OSM for the area in which I'm traveling, I'm not sure there is a good short-term solution.
What's even worse is that often I'll click "restaurants", zoom in all the way, and then click "Search this area", yet Google will still refuse to show some popular restaurant, even when there are no other restaurants displayed in the window.
The only way to get those restaurants to show up is to search them by name.
Not sure if they're intentionally penalizing certain restaurants, but it's pretty bad.
The brave results are usually relevant for me, but I find it struggles when I'm looking for something very specific. Their indexing of reddit seems to have a lot of gaps when compared with Google.
Sure, it's easiest if you stay on the happy path. You'll only regret that if you or what you want to do online falls out of favor of whomever is in power.
Yes, a few people will die. More than a few. But I would bet anything that even in the short-term, and especially in the long-term, far fewer will die than if there were human drivers in those cars.
Using Firefox (on a Linux laptop) with resistfingerpriting=true or Mull (on an Android) with its default settings, I'm able to get assigned a new fingerprint whenever I clear cookies or use a new Incognito session.
I haven't tested it, but presumably they also wouldn't be able to track me between domains, even without clearing cookies.
With the exception of addressing critical security issues, why does an organization who positions themselves as a leader of open source software make so many user-unfriendly decisions behind closed doors?