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There's a code that refreshes it every 5 min. https://i.imgur.com/SzFkzdG.png

Very strange. For me on mobile safari (iOS 8.whatever's newest) it refreshed six or seven times by the end. Very frustrating. I don't have traffic inspection tools on my iPhone but usually I find weird page refreshes like that are due to advertising.

Same for me on an iOS 8 iPad. I only got the website to stop refreshing by constantly holding down the screen and scrolling

Must be to boost their ad impressions. Really scummy, and kept interrupting the embedded Uber training video.

Ironically, I kept seeing ads at the top from uber.

Came here to the comments to ask the same question about the page refresh. At one point the page even completely blanked out and served me an error message directly from the server. It wasn't anything particularly sensitive, but an information leak none-the-less.