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> "You can walk, bike, find somewhere to charge your phone, call a friend, use another ride sharing app, use a car you own, etc" "Another ride sharing app" wit
by whstl 3y ago
> "You can walk, bike, find somewhere to charge your phone, call a friend, use another ride sharing app, use a car you own, etc"
"Another ride sharing app" without battery? If you're without battery this is the exact point where you won't be doing price comparison. This is malicious as fuck.
The rest of those are not available during emergencies where people are far away, without transportation and with low battery. If Uber is really doing it, it clearly is doing that to force people to pay more during those kinds of emergencies, and if they're doing it is because they have data on it.
> "I do not believe hiding the algolithm to arrive at a price is fraud."
I never said anything about an algorithm, I said about collecting data. If Uber is not being transparent about the data it collects during the process of calling a ride, it is spying on me. Period.
"I agree, but when submitting information to them shouldn't be tampered with to get a better deal."
Who is "submitting information"? Uber spying on a customer is not "submitting information.
How long until computer people understand that the existence of an API is not a permission for billion-dollar companies to spy on users and use that to fuck customers?
- charcircuit 3y ago>The rest of those are not available during emergencies where people are far away, without transportation and with low battery. If someone is in an emergency and have no other option then they will likely value getting an Uber more and would be willing to pay for one. >Who is "submitting information"? The app.
- whstl 3y ago"If someone is in an emergency and have no other option then they will likely value getting an Uber more and would be willing to pay for one." You just repeated what I said. "The app." If an app is the one submitting information without knowledge and consent of the user, then there's no fraud from the user part. But there might be illegal behavior from the app maker's part in some jurisdictions.