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by steveBK123 1144 days ago
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they have ways to do that and micro target better rates on fares that have a pending Lyft pickup.

Remember on the driver side they run on different phones generally, but on the client side the customer is running all these apps on their single phone. A lot of these apps have privacy issues and snoop a lot on the client side. So they can basically detect frequency/recency of Lyft app being open on your phone, and then offer Uber drivers better rates for pickups at your GPS location.