The downside of Strava

[cvcalhoun]

U.S. soldiers are revealing dangerous information by jogging
http://wapo.st/2nlhXed

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[ChampionTier]

Just throwing out a silver lining here: despite ceding a little OPSEC and physical security if you nab a KOM/QOM at one of those sites odds are you’ll keep the crown for a long time.

[streetsmarts]

Strava privacy settings make it easy to figure out where you live.
Read on

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/social-exercise-app-can-give-away-home-address-182247535.html?__twitter_impression=true

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[LhasaCM]

@streetsmarts 174376 wrote:

Strava privacy settings make it easy to figure out where you live.
Read on

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/social-exercise-app-can-give-away-home-address-182247535.html?__twitter_impression=true

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Where you live, or any other location for which you have a privacy zone set up for – assuming you approach it from a few different directions. Yay, math! (I think there are easier ways to figure out where I live rather than trying to overlay what Strava displays for my rides and drawing circles of varying sizes…)

[hozn]

Yeah, we have been through this in another thread. The easy answer is just not to make your house the center of the privacy circle.

I wanted to make stravangulate poc project concept a few years ago. I haven’t followed link above, but by now I am sure many people have beat me to it.

[AliasXIII]

If you set the privacy zone somewhere where the circle encompasses your house, but your house is not at the very center of it, it should work better?

[AFHokie]

Depending how rural your home/location, offsetting the circle still may not do much if for degrading the CEP if yours is the only house/compound in the area or a terrain overlay shows your house is the only reasonable option.

[peterw_diy]

@AFHokie 174388 wrote:

Depending how rural your home/location, offsetting the circle still may not do much if for degrading the CEP if yours is the only house/compound in the area or a terrain overlay shows your house is the only reasonable option.

Or if you own your house and your Strava username is similar to your legal name.

[secstate]

Strava flybys are now off by default. Just noticed this tonight. I liked this feature and was never hugely worried about the privacy implications but I suppose it’s open to various forms of abuse.

[AlexandriaBiker]

@secstate 202474 wrote:

Strava flybys are now off by default. Just noticed this tonight. I liked this feature and was never hugely worried about the privacy implications but I suppose it’s open to various forms of abuse.

Despite the “creep factor” I looked at Flybys occasionally and have turned mine back on.
More on the demise of Flybys here. https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/10/strava-flyby-turns-feature.html

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