How to find your Uber passenger rating

Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by aliston on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:47PM (#8095067)

I don't get why this is included in the window.Uber pingData. It seems as though your rating is something that isn't necessary and shouldn't be surfaced client-side.

Anyone have some insight into why this data is there in the first place? Is this an accidental leak, some sort of optimization or something else?

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by chmars on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:24AM (#8095332)

It's data about me, so I have a right to know and get it anyway – at least under European data privacy laws.

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by kevinmchugh on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:15AM (#8095152)

No reason to hide it until it becomes a problem. I suspect now that someone's gone to the trouble to surface it, they'll patch it out, but really, it doesn't matter if a tiny percentage of uber-users know what their score is.

It's an optimization for their developers. They probably don't want to write a bunch of "if user.driver?"'s in their API responses, so just return all the data all the time and let their clients decide what to show.

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by mpeg on Monday July 28, 2014 @04:37AM (#8095729)

They used to have lots more stuff in their private API; such as the driver's full name, home address and phone number.

Probably careless API design.

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