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

<p>Ride hailing app’s ‘take rate’ – or cut – sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/19/uk-uber-drivers-earning-less-an-hour-dynamic-pricing-research">Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm</a></p></li></ul><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 – and fight with – the ride hailing app.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/19/rough-ride-uber-quietly-took-more-fare-algorithm-change">Continue reading...</a>