Just had an e-mail from Komoot asking me to upload photos to my ride this morning.
Since I don’t upload anything to Komoot I’m somewhat surprised. I presume there must be a strava setting somewhere that they’ve activated? I’ve had a look in the settings to turn this off but can’t find it … .can someone point me in the right direction please?
Ta 
Didn’t EJC have a similar issue recently?
I think it’s under settings, partner integrations.
Nope.
Edit - it looks like something has changed in Garmin Connect which is what feeds Komoot (and Strava obvs). Had to turn off the upload in Garmin Connect
Sorry, hadn’t realised you were pushing from Garmin as well, I think that was where EJC was getting things sent from as well.
Yep.
To be fair, when I turned the setting off in Komoot, they opened up a Garmin Connect log-on window and then, once I’d made the change in GC, was returned to Komoot to confirm.
Why do you need to sprint if you’re in a solo breakaway 
Well I was in a solo breakaway till they caught me 
Then I had to sprint to keep my dignity 
I’ve written up the same race reports for races I’ve been in
“solo breakaway” - “was off the front on my own for two minutes, whilst people were chuckling in the group wondering why anyone was out there.”
“Well timed sprint” - “Timed perfectly, still only managed to beat fred, who had sat up”
The AI, is really learning the bullshit 
how did Strava know you made a solo breakaway
Eg. there could have been 20 of you, but the others don’t use Strava
sounds like a good race mind 
If anyone uses the heat maps for routes when they’re away there’s a couple of useful updates.
Nighttime maps to see where to avoid and popular in the last week. The latter might get skewed if there’s been a major event and it wants you to run the London marathon route 
DCR explains the immediate effect of the changes Strava announced via email a couple of days ago and they aren’t going to help the coaching community. I guess they’ve become the standard platform over the years but not found a way to make massive sums of cash and wonder if this is a pre-cursor to try and get money out of these third party apps.
Hard to see where some of them will go. People with a Garmin will likely upload to connect first then Strava and I’m fairly sure you can link some things to GC link training peaks?
“You may not use the Strava API Materials (including Strava Data), directly or indirectly, for any model training related to artificial intelligence”
It’s a good job strava’s own AI insight into your training is so good
The ridiculous thing is strava is entirely based off free API access to other companies data. No significant number of strava users are uploading their data to strava via recording from the strava app.
So they’re now taking my (largely) Garmin data, for free, and pretending it’s theirs and holding it to ransom. This is not going to end well.
Their profile is based off high volume of usage, and their USP was primarily an easy use gateway for a users data. OK, I don’t pay them for that privilege, but they monetise things like global heatmaps due to the free subscribers (who significantly outnumber the paid ones).
They really need to take a cold shower and think what would happen if Garmin decided to make the same restrictions on them in retaliation. They’d literally die overnight. They have no core “data” of their own at all.
Yeah, and if my feed is anything to go by they get a lot of data directly from Zwift.
I think the argument he makes is that a lot of the smaller watch companies only really work with Strava as they don’t have deep enough pockets to maintain their own platform, but it’s not clear how many of them there will be, I’d guess the majority of activity trackers come from a few big brands like Garmin, Apple, Wahoo, Polar etc.
Having read the DCrainmaker article, my sense is that Strava want money for providing the service to all these apps.
If, as @stenard says, most people don’t pay a subscription, then I guess they have to look for another way to monetise the platform.
A lot of strava accounts are probably dormant now?
I agree that’s their strategy, but it seems based on the assumption that data is theirs. It’s not. I can get 99% of my data to other apps I use direct from Garmin Connect. Strava was a convenience, and that convenience allowed them to have all my data and monetise it directly (eg heatmaps).
Closing off third party apps won’t make more people subscribe. As strava can’t offer those functions. If the DCR comments are anything to go by, it’s going to hammer their subscription numbers.
While these latest steps haven’t caused me to cancel my premium subscription, it did remind me to take it off auto-renew.
