Uber is still a spam company

I just installed Uber again, on latest phone, because I needed to get a ride.  When ios asks if it can do notiifications, one assumes these notifications will be about one's ride.  No, they are spam.  And I've been here before [0].  I'd forgotten, but over 3 years ago, I was uninstalling Uber due to notification spam.  Why do this?  Why alienate customers in this way?  If your business is taxi app, why spam your customers with notification spam?

 [0] <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/12/uber-spammers-account-temporarily.html>

And, again, the ride pricing and information from Uber was rubbish.

I started trying to get a ride at Spittal-Millstaettersee (spectacular train journey, by the way), where there were building works and a bus replacement service.  I was cutting it fine for getting to my destination in daylight.  Checkin was only possible until 17:00.  Given that checking required taking a gondola, a chairlift, and walking across and up a piste with luggage, I wouldn't want to attempt it after 17:00 on a first attempt anyway.  Anyway, I was just going to get a cab all the way from Spittal-Millstaettersee to the destination, the base station of the Krvavec gondola which goes from above Grad by Kirklje (the accommodation and map just referred to it as "Grad", which wasn't then searchable-for, unsurprisingly. Google Maps also labels it as just "Grad", but doesn't return it on a search, presumably because this is a geographic term as generic as "Burg" or "Ville").

I couldn't find any cabs outside the train station.

So I installed spam Uber, and tried that.  It pretended that it could do it for a while, then admitted that it couldn't.

So I got on the replacement bus to Villach, which I think is is the second city of Carinthia.  Now Uber did get me a taxi.  He was in his taxi cab, but doing an Uber job.

Uber had priced it around 180 EUR to Grad.  The trip involved going through the tunnel from Austria to Slovenia under the Karawanks, which is a toll tunnel. And going on the Slovenian motorway, which requires a Slovenian vignette.  The drive asked me to pay both these at the machines.  Fine, whatever.  A bit like Africa but I don't care.

Apparently Uber doesn't show the driver the price until the journey is complete.  He asked me on the way what it was going to be, and I told him.  When we got there, it told him 80 EUR.  WTF.  I checked, and it was now 80 EUR on my end too, with no explanation.  According to his one, the drop-off was not where specified.  On the map, it showed it ending where we had entered the tunnel under the mountains at the border.  That is where Uber concluded the ride had ended.  This is basic shit.  Instead of making their service work properly, Uber are focusing on spam. He didn't ask me to, but I gave him the other 100 EUR in cash, because it was blatantly Uber's fault, and it wouldn't have been fair.

Uber is primarily a spam company, and it makes some poor attempts at being a taxi app.