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   "text": "Signup and approval processes in centralized micro task systems are invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear, and they function as market entry barriers for micro task workers.",
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   "text": "Payment intermediary fees such as Paypal's are viable only for higher volume workers who can eventually avoid them, so they operate as an entry barrier against new micro task workers.",
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   "text": "Centralized approval processes and identity requirements for worker registration significantly limit the registration of new micro task workers.",
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