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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#92
post #46

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?

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

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#93
I have absolutely zero interest in my Uber passenger rating.

If they decide to start being ridiculous, I'll decide to start taking cabs again -- at least the cabbies generally have a clue about how to get to places, and don't bother with questions about "what route would you like me to take you on". The fastest route, thanks.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#96
post #42

This is a lot easier than the Charles MITM proxy I used to intercept the Uber iPhone API calls to determine mine. I feel kind of silly now that I didnt bother checking the web API. I also made a web scraper to get my uber trip details (incl. route driven), save it to JSON and map the trips all at once. http://i.imgur.com/Q1W59rD.jpg . Here's a quick dump of the code https://github.com/joshhunt/uber . It's pretty roug…

If you're curious, I put together a Python library for that: https://github.com/tals/uber.py Some of this is remainders from when they just had consultants working on this. Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

Deep link: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/master/uber/client.py#L...

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#99
I wonder if this reverse-rating system is only for US. Even though I'm from US, I had only get the chance to use it abroad (Jakarta). And when I check it, my rating is null. Is it something to do with the fact that Uber driver in Jakarta are actually professional car-rental driver?

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#100

I've been aware of my Uber passenger rating for about a year. When I first found out about it, my rating was a 4.9. Once I realized that I was being rated, I worked really hard to be the perfect passenger. I had my rating up to a 5.0 for a few months. Then I got lazy about being perfect and it has since dropped to a 4.8.

What things did you do to be "the perfect passenger"?
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