{"id":19209,"date":"2025-06-19T18:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/rough-ride-how-uber-quietly-took-more-of-your-fare-with-its-algorithm-change\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:37:52","slug":"rough-ride-how-uber-quietly-took-more-of-your-fare-with-its-algorithm-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/rough-ride-how-uber-quietly-took-more-of-your-fare-with-its-algorithm-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride hailing app\u2019s \u2018take rate\u2019 \u2013 or cut \u2013 sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/19\/uk-uber-drivers-earning-less-an-hour-dynamic-pricing-research\">Uber drivers\u2019 earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a decade after being one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/12\/they-were-taking-us-for-a-ride-how-uber-used-investor-cash-to-seduce-drivers\">19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015<\/a>, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for \u2013 and fight with \u2013 the ride hailing app.<\/p>\n<p>The group won their claim confirming their entitlement to the legal minimum wage \u2013 but the Silicon Valley company\u2019s insistence that its drivers were self-employed contractors meant the case went all the way to the supreme court. In 2021, Hadi and friends won there too.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/19\/rough-ride-uber-quietly-took-more-fare-algorithm-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/81ca2fc5e4ff8ee58253c4001a65edd52be91c87\/133_0_6148_4918\/master\/6148.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c5a3e4ef2973e1926b51260444e1deaa\" title=\"Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change\" \/>Ride hailing app\u2019s \u2018take rate\u2019 \u2013 or cut \u2013 sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing<br \/>\nUber drivers\u2019 earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm<br \/>\nMore than a decade after being one of 19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for \u2013 and fight with \u2013 the ride hailing app.<br \/>\nThe group won their claim confirming their entitlement to the legal minimum wage \u2013 but the Silicon Valley company\u2019s insistence that its drivers were self-employed contractors meant the case went all the way to the supreme court. In 2021, Hadi and friends won there too. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride hailing app\u2019s \u2018take rate\u2019 \u2013 or cut \u2013 sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing Uber drivers\u2019 earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm More than a decade after being one of 19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for \u2013 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/rough-ride-how-uber-quietly-took-more-of-your-fare-with-its-algorithm-change\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}