Knowing the tech industry it sounds entirely plausible. I'm surprised people think this is news.

Not sure its justified to put it in any bucket right away for couple reasons

- Terminology is realistic

- Everything mentioned is feasible and more or less thats how a business works on the idea of extracting maximum profit

- Caveat is, whatever has been called out is most likely legal so the company is legally playing by the rules, its just some ones moral compass that does not wants to accept it

By that same token, couldn’t someone say, without evidence, your response is obfuscation and don’t trust someone telling you food deliver services are not taking advantage of people using an algorithm? Not that I think you are but neither response proves identity or motive.

I don’t wholly disagree but consider it more a datapoint than an outlier that should be omitted.

Including evidence in a public post will out them to the company and make the upcoming lawsuit against them more serious by giving ammo to the company. The evidence should be given to the journalist OP will soon talk to.