Strava Closes the Gates To Sharing Fitness Data With Other Apps

The Verge's Richard Lawler reports: Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava's look, and place a ban on using data "for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications." The policy is effective as of November 11th, even though Strava's own post about the change is dated November 15th.

There are plenty of posts on social media complaining about the sudden shift, but one place where dissent won't be tolerated is Strava's own forums. The company says, "...posts requesting or attempting to have Strava revert business decisions will not be permitted." Brian Bell, Strava's VP of Communications and Social Impact, said in a statement: "We anticipate that these changes will affect only a small fraction (less than .1 percent) of the applications on the Strava platform -- the overwhelming majority of existing use cases are still allowed, including coaching platforms focused on providing feedback to users and tools that help users understand their data and performance."

The Strava platform?

[dfghjk]

"We anticipate that these changes will affect only a small fraction (less than .1 percent) of the applications on the Strava platform..."

What applications other than Strava are on the "Strava platform"? The intention, obviously, is to affect applications that use Strava while conveniently using the misleading term "Strava platform" to exclude those applications from discussion.

Also, how embarrassing is it that /. now steals content from The Verge, a site that's stealing their content from other sites, DC R

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[Vegan Cyclist]

There's one site I use (and paid a small fee to support) that allows you to upload all your rides, and it maps them out.

It's particularly helpful for me, as I organize a cycling challenge series that uses segments, and sometimes I want to find a ride where I went on a certain road, to see if there's a segment there or create one (in order to create a segment, you have to have ridden that portion of road or trail, etc..)

But the wider use of that site is just to easily see what days you've ridden on what road

You are the product

[mspohr]

You don't own your data.
Strava owns all the data and they can sell it to anyone for any purpose.
Stupid.

stravaleaks

[martin-boundary]

This might go some way to explaining what's going on here.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/stra... [lemonde.fr]

https://www.schneier.com/blog/... [schneier.com]