Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers

Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by goalieca on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:38AM (#46193507)

I paid quite a fee to have crave streaming service in canada. It's pretty premium with HBO and that. Yet, all the star trek shows are now behind ads.. several minutes for a 20 minute episode of lower decks. Things are getting out of hand.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by charles_f on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:46AM (#46193637)

I was paying $24 for crave. They showed me ads.

I'm not paying crave anymore.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by oniony on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:09AM (#46193987)

But rest assured they'll blame piracy for their downturn in revenue.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by monerozcash on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:08PM (#46194799)

Unlikely, does anyone in this sector actually bother complaining about piracy anymore? Except for sports, they've largely managed to kill it off.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by oniony on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:01AM (#46203984)

I had read it was resurging since they started upping the pricing and the fragmentation that occurred since Disney split off.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by mystraline on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:17AM (#46194100)

Get a cheap VPN and then pirate.

That technically is also competition. And if the market offers garbage for money, but the illegal market is free and better, go with the illegal choice.

You'll be treated like a criminal either way with DRM. So... Yeah.

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by charles_f on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:48PM (#46200697)

For $24 a month you can even get an expensive vpn

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by Grisu_FTP on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:49AM (#46203140)

For 24$ a month you can get a good enough VPS to stream Terabytes of movies with jellyfin.

Even if you take away the money a vpn costs, you still can have a decent vps with decent storage.

If you only need storage, even better. Found an offer for a "Storage VPS" with low hardware specs and 2TB of HDDs for 10€/monthly

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Re:Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers by dylan604 on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:15AM (#46194067)

I was paying for Prime. They showed me ads. I'm not paying for Prime anymore

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