| > But the problem is those workout files are actually your data. I'm a long-time fan of DC Rainmaker, but here he is just wrong. Once you put that data into Strava, it's not yours anymore. This is the fundamental conflict with all of these services: your data doesn't belong to you, it belongs to them. You can argue all day that it shouldn't be that way, but Strava pays to host the data, to store it in perpetuity, to (theoretically) keep it secure, and to enable API integrations that cost bandwidth. And you don't pay for it. Not with cash money anyway. You pay by surrendering your right to use your data as you see fit. Edit for my downvoters: I agree that this state of affairs is messed up. I'm just noting the reality of how these services operate. |
Strava can’t pretend to be a hub and then claim they own the data. Hoping Garmin, Wahoo and others who actually produce this data clamp down on Strava too.