Diet is the biggest name in track racing and bike rides. Despite this, occasionally gets in trouble revealing secret US military bases. UU. O enabling doxing. If you use it, you may be wondering who exactly can see your tracked activities. Well, the solution is practically for everyone.
Everybody (default)
Strava's handling of privacy issues is a major cause for concern. The worst problem is its default settings. If you join Strava and don't lock your account right away, anyone with an internet connection will be able to see your tracked activities. They even appear in Google searches.
These are some of the ways people can stumble (deliberately tracking) your trip information:
- They follow you on Strava and you share it with them.
- You post your activity from Strava to another social media site and they click.
- His career or journey overlapped with yours in a 30 percent, so Strava assumes they did it together.
- They crossed and they use the Flyby function.
- You hit a segment leaderboard and they tapped.
- You made it to a daily category, by age or weight, or other leaderboard, and they tapped.
- They did a segment at a rate equivalent to yours, so you appear in the same place in a leaderboard.
- Strava sends them an automatic notification and suggests they review it.
And those were just the cases that we could remember. By default, your activities on Strava are truly public, which you probably find scary.
What can you do about it
Maybe you agree that everyone can see your runs and rides. Strava is a social network, so the fact that everyone can see these things by default is a feature, not a mistake. If you want to occupy a place in the leaderboard of a segment (And get the bragging rights that go with it), then that activity must be public.
Despite this, if you feel a little uncomfortable, you may want to follow the instructions in the following sections.
Lock your profile and hide your house
The last thing you want is for the entire internet to know where you live. First, see our guide on how to prevent Strava from disclosing your information. You can change the settings so that all your activities are only visible to you or your followers. You can also create privacy zones that hide the exact location of your home and / or workplace.
RELATED: How to prevent Strava from publishing your home address
Make individual activities public
All your activities don't need to have the same privacy settings on Strava. If you're running a blazing-fast 5K and want to appear on a segment leaderboard, just make that race private.
To do it, find that activity on Strava and then click on the pencil icon.
On “Privacy controls”, change “Who can see” a “Everybody”.
Now, this activity will be public while everything else will remain private. If you have established a Privacy Zone around your home, people won't be able to see where you live or triangulate things from multiple activities based on information from a specific career.
