Strava privacy bubble settings
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Strava privacy bubble settings
I have checked all of my rides this month, and the zones I set up to hide beginning and end points no longer seem to be applying to my rides. A ticket has been opened with Strava. Anyone else lose their privacy bubbles on Strava? The first incident seems to be the 6/1/12 ride.
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it could be that the data has changed with the map. With me I set up a bubble around an area near my house and not my house at the center and it works pretty well. I would recheck what location you have your bubble set up at.
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I have checked all of my rides this month, and the zones I set up to hide beginning and end points no longer seem to be applying to my rides. A ticket has been opened with Strava. Anyone else lose their privacy bubbles on Strava? The first incident seems to be the 6/1/12 ride.
However, the privacy zone didn't work on my run today. It doesn't indicate that it is only for riding...
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It works as intended for me, checked with a ride that I've uploaded 2 hours ago. Not that it is a particularly useful feature. With the bubble set to 500 feet, it limits the number of possibilities for my address to about 5 different houses. I'm not sure what the point is.
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It stopped working for activities after May 31. No changes were made on my end. Sure, you could crop the rides, but that's not the point. I could make them all private if I went into each activity and marked it as such, which is less of a pain that cropping. When privacy is important to you, you count on it to work.
Since Strava does not yet support Bluetooth, and only plans so far to support Bluetooth 4, it really has dwindling value for me (my device only goes to 2.1).
Plenty of other apps out there to accomplish the same thing. I keep duplicate copies in Endomondo and will be using that, was just giving a heads up to those who also might value privacy.
Since Strava does not yet support Bluetooth, and only plans so far to support Bluetooth 4, it really has dwindling value for me (my device only goes to 2.1).
Plenty of other apps out there to accomplish the same thing. I keep duplicate copies in Endomondo and will be using that, was just giving a heads up to those who also might value privacy.
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Yesterday I took my dog out to run with me. She bonked, and I stopped by home to drop her off, then went back out and did another 2 miles solo. The part the privacy screen didn't catch was that, when I dropped off my dog.
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This wouldn't be a problem with SportTracks or Golden Cheetah.
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