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The Guardian // World // Europe

Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change

Thursday 19th June 2025, 5:46PM

Ride-hailing app’s ‘take rate’ – or cut – sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricingUber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithmMore than a decade after being one of 19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for – and fight with – the ride hailing app.The group won their claim confirming their entitlement to the legal minimum wage – but the Silicon Valley company’s 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...

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