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Thanks to copyright restrictions that criminalize modifying apps without permission, there is no legal way for either drivers or riders to build comparison-shopping dashboards that bid out the same worker or job to multiple apps and choose from the cheapest.
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Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission
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Disputed I could not verify this as a verbatim Cory Doctorow quote. The cited Bookshop page for The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI lists the book, author, description, and a June 23, 2026 publication date, but it does not contain this sentence; searches on that page for distinctive terms like “comparison-shopping dashboards,” “cheapest,” and “criminalize” return no match. I did find related but materially different Doctorow wording in Pluralistic posts about gig-work apps letting workers compare offers across platforms and customers shift transactions to the app with the lowest commission/price, which suggests this is a paraphrase or synthesis rather than a source-backed verbatim quote. ([bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai-how-to-think-about-artificial-intelligence-before-it-s-too-late-cory-doctorow/ac86987834ee96c2)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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