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The company says that rides customers will pay an additional $0.45 or $0.55 on each trip, and Eats customers will pay either $0.35 or $0.45 on each order, depending on their location.

According to the company, users in some countries will be allowed to call for violence against Russian troops, reported the Independent.

This doesn’t bode well with Google for obvious reasons and the company has sent a cease and desist letter to the Vanced developer team.

There’s still much work to be done, however, as the group needs to figure out how to verify the driver’s ID, how to deal with false positives, and whether the feature is too intrusive.

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