While I’m not personally affected since Garmin is my primary data source, I find it absolutely outrageous what’s happening here. These are my data, which I voluntarily provide to Strava for their use. Therefore, it should be my choice what happens with these data and what doesn’t.
There should absolutely be options to determine how my data can and cannot be used via the API.
Even though, as mentioned, I’m not directly affected, I consider Strava’s actions extremely disrespectful. For this reason, I will be canceling my Strava Premium subscription. In my opinion, it has already lost its value for some time now, but this was the last straw.
Hopefully (even though I doubt it), enough users will cancel their subscriptions to make Strava realize that they can’t do whatever they want. They have no right to claim sole control over my data – data I only share with them for processing purposes.
In the short term will zwift activities synced to wahoo in turn sync to intervals?
Had anyone found a solution for syncing lezyne activities? It’s only a small proportion of my rides but works be nice to have those come over automatically without Strava
I have a question, if I download my activity (download a file) from Strava and upload it to Intervals will it be considered as violation their new rules?
I used their API to time a race segment within a race my club organised. I was sent a mail to kindly refrain from doing it. Not sure how they picked it up, but they did.
Yes they have always had stuff like “you can’t analyse the data from Strava” in there which I have always ignored because how can any app not “analyse” the data? But I will have to implement the hiding stuff. They are sure to want that done.
I am pursuing as many direct integration opportunities as I can.
If Strava connection is removed, all Strava activities from intervals are removed?
If I keep Strava connection, but uncheck all checkboxes (including “Download activities”), already imported activities are preserved (though visible only for me), but no new activities will be imported from Strava from now on?
Thanks!
So basically you record an activity with your head unit which results in a .fit file. This file gets uploaded to Strava and suddenly it isn’t yours anymore? This is an absolutely ridiculous move from Strava.
There’s a nuance here…
The data that you get through the Strava API is NOT the original data but a Strava ‘Enhanced’ version of it.
The ‘Enhanced’ is to take with a lot of grains of salt though because they may be adding some segment info to it, but they also strip a lot of original data like for example the L/R power data.
Anyway, that means that the modified data you get through the API, is in some way at least partially ‘their’ data and that’s what they abuse off.
If you go to the Strava site and download your original Activity Data file (TCX or FIT or…), then you have ‘your’ data and you can do with it what you want. Unfortunately, that means that you loose the automation process.
I’m absolutely not a fan of Strava and the above is in no means a ‘defence’ but legally, there’s nothing you can do about that. I 'm more like a ‘Strava hater’ and have only been on their site for a couple of days before I rapidly cancelled my account again. In the early Intervals days, I waited patiently to become a member of Intervals until the Garmin connection was available…
Its good idea but, after re-upload names are out of sync. Name on intervals is the name of workout from that day, and name on strava remains untouched.
Outrageous that Strava thinks they own MY data. Cut their connection to Zwift, Garmin, and here. Of course all of my data here disappeared, but I requested my data from Garmin(which I have always used) and linked the files here. So, back in business!
Only issue I have now is Mywhoosh does not connect here. Any chance for that in the forseeable future?
I tried to contact mywhoosh today regarding integration, they answered me immediately and they looked like they want to pursue it, hopefully, you will hear from them soon.
Outstanding! I only rode there a few times as they do not support external cadence sensors, only built-in trainer cadence. Getting a Jet Black Victory by the end of the month, or so they say, so want to ride there more when my Zwift subscription expires. Will probably keep Zwift for part of the year, though.
Technically yes any app that does anything at all is at odds with the API terms of service. It has always been like that. I have tried to stay on the right side of Strava “in spirit” so I will have to implement hiding of Strava data and hope that is what they are actually looking for.
But I am pursuing as many direct integration options as I can line up.
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