alt Hacker NewsSo will this impact Uber that does some extremely shady stuff around your profile / phone type / battery life / account history / micro location / etc to tease out level of desperation & price elasticity.
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happyopossum • today at 4:02 AM
> battery life
lol - amazing how often highly technical people will believe urban legends when they fit their priors.
That one in particular has not only been denied, but disproven.
[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/uber-surge-pricing-phone-bat...
[1] https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/verify/verify-does-uber-ch...
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Given Uber's history of ignoring laws they don't like, I don't expect anything to change until NY goes after them in court.