[patrickfl]

Could it be possible that it is Lyft affiliates that are doing this on their own for affiliate commissions? Not saying it is right, but at least it isn't a marketing strategy from the central office.

I wonder why they aren't at least doing some crafty Photoshop and merging images of 2 different people to create a unique persona. There was a guy here on HN that did that a few years back it was a pretty popular post.

Possibly even worse than Lyft spam are infinite scrolling websites such as these. Ctrl +A? I don't think so. How do you tell where the article ends? I was in "skimming mode" and 1/2 way down the page before I realized I was reading another article.

[Dr_tldr]

Well I'm sure Lyft it shocked, absolutely shocked to discover that there's spamming going on here.

It's not like they could develop basic accountability tools or read the thousands of complaints consumers have sent to them directly or do a google search. All of those things are impossible to do with present technology, which is why Lyft is the real victim here.

[bstanfield]

Source?