2y ago

How to stay safe on Strava

How to stay safe on Strava - Canadian Cycling Magazine

Some good tips to preserve a bit of privacy for those who use the Strava platform.

Several suggestions in the article also apply to other fitness tracking platforms.

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Don't use it in the first place, no need to share your cycling information.
- Rather unfortunately, many clubs and events use these apps to coordinate routes. One ride event I did used RidewithGPS, and I never use it normally.
  Alternatively, if you can export the GPX file, you can import it to your privacy-first app, like OSMand.
Use osmand or opentracks instead. Opentracks is strava without (social) sharing
- Which OpenTracks? Google PlayStore has two.
  
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dennisguse.opentracks.playstore
  https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/de.dennisguse.opentracks/
  Dashboard (map) for opentracks
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.storchp.opentracks.osmplugin
  https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/de.storchp.opentracks.osmplugin/
  Github page: https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks
  And releases https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks/releases
  But I can't manage to add it to obtainium
- I switched to Osmand when my bike computer got stolen and tbf I prefer Osmand, especially with the widgets and stuff set up for the cycling profile
- Or Fitotrack, which has an even nicer dashboard (with horrible colors, unfortunately) to screenshot and send to friends to brag (not that I'd ever do that ^__)
  
  Iirc opentracks works better with import/exports. Apart from that, both do their job.

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