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Uber is still a spam company

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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 w...