For the people who were using FREENOW (originally from Germany), I just received a notification on the app saying it is now being acquired by Lyft, an American company.
Just thought I’d share it here.
Edit: If you’re planning to delete your account, see the comment by Alaknar on making a GDPR request. It’s quick and easy to do.
I guess it’s FREENOLONGER
America, the land of Monopolies and Oligarchs
In case you want to remove your account due to this, HERE’S a link to their How To, and HERE’S the link to the contact form.
The process is very simple:
In the ‘Main contact reason’ section, select ‘GDPR’ and in the Subject type ‘I want to delete my account’. Make sure to use the email address registered to your FREENOW account
I had already gotten rid of my account because they were exploiting local taxi drivers pretty horribly in a similar way to delivery apps vs local restaurants.
But now I might be able to convince friends to delete their accounts.
We actually had a local alternative here, BEAT. Then FreeNow bought it and we had to switch apps which was annoying but hey at least it wasn’t Uber. Now this gets bought too. I guess it’s either Uber or Lyft now.