Strava Privacy Update Nov'24

you do know that Strava is changing their T&C and this is gonna cause issues possibly and intervals.icu is recommending that users all switch away from strava as sauce.

Correct. That data did not arrive via the Strava API and is not subject to those terms.

I still think the best solution is for people to keep Strava connected but also add the original source. The ā€œimport the archiveā€ option will ā€œfixā€ Strava history so your followers and coaches will be able to see it.

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Quick question for you @David. What does this option do?

How does it relate to the ā€œKeep non-Strava activities in sync with Stravaā€?

Thanks!

If you tick that and change the activity name and description on Intervals.icu it will update Strava to match. If you change the name on Strava the name on Intervals.icu will updated. This will include matching non-Strava activities if the "Keep … " box is ticked.

If you leave it unticked then Intervals.icu will preserve the name and description on Intervals.icu and not update with Strava changes. This includes matching non-Strava activities. Note that this applies to the name and description. Other things like the race, commute and trainer flags are updated.

Thank you!

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This is what I have done, where I’ve imported a lot of my historical data, to ensure that any Strava-disconnect (by them or me) retains whatever might not have come from my Garmin devices.

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I do now. Thanks

This is your (@david )biggest business opportunity ever… intervals.icu could become the new intermediate syncing/activity historical activity repsitoty platform

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In addition to Rouvy, could intervals.icu be connected to MyWhoosh?

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Thanks, David-

Having just connected Wahoo, there seems to be inconsistent doubling of some activities. Is this a product of what I assume is a higher than usual load on servers at the moment that will work itself out? Or is it possible there is some additional setting to be manipulated?

DC Rainmaker’s take:

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No if the activities start at approximately the same time and aren’t much different in duration they should match.

I see that some of your Wahoo activities have duped. I am not sure why that should be. Intervals.icu de-dups activity files using a hash of the file meaning that those Wahoo fit files must be slightly different.

You can use the activity list view and a source = Wahoo filter to find the dups and delete them:

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DC Rainmakers take:

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Make a dashboard with the most recent rides of your friends to give kudos and drop strava :sweat_smile:

So I guess we need a direct link to Zwift now?

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That is very much in progress! But it is a huge hit for all the smaller devices. Just integrating with Strava is no longer enough.

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I didn’t realise the full implications of this. Supposedly apps using the Strava API can no longer do any analytics on the data. Intervals.icu will hide Strava data from people other than the athlete but will obviously continue to do analytics (duh!). But it is possible that Strava will kill Intervals.icu API access.

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Is Garmin a viable alternative for sourcing data? I believe all of my activities exist on there, so I don’t see why not.

Ive already dropped my strava sub because I have all options here with access to much more data.

Would be nice though to add some social aspect to the site, so the home is not the calender but a dashboard of friend activities. And then invite all Strava users here :slight_smile:

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Yes but remember you only get one shot at fetching history back to a year. Then you need to use the ā€œImport All Garmin Dataā€ button in the Garmin box in /settings.

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I donā€˜t know who Strava think they are. They get free data shoved down their throats while their premium features are utterly pointless and now, instead of putting in some real work and improving, they try to kill those who do. Feels like an absolute power trip and hopefully they will have to backpaddle massivley soon. For my part, I guess Iā€˜m just gonna delete my Strava Account and import directly into intervals.

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