Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How Yelp is replacing restaurant's real phone numbers with numbers owned by Grubhub so they can record calls and can charge a 15-20% referral fee, unbeknownst to restaurant owners. As of May 2020, NYC has passed a bill to end this practice.