Strava - Enhanced Privacy

#Chri5# · 22 Mar 2018 at 09:00

Am I misunderstanding this?

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918777-Privacy-Settings

If you turn on Enhanced Privacy

Your name will be anonymized (e.g. Chris) to all logged out athletes.

Athletes must request approval to follow you

Hides activities on your profile page from non-followers

I have EP enabled, as is hiding my training log from other users. Being a TT session, it won't appear on any leaderboards either.

This morning I've had a Kudos for my last turbo session from a random porn-bot

https://www.strava.com/athletes/29155908

So if EP is on, how has "it" found my upload?

MM-Seat · 22 Mar 2018 at 09:46

I've had this last night on a zwift ride. Wonder if it's through that?

#Chri5# · 22 Mar 2018 at 10:09

Was a solo Sufferfest TT last night, so no Zwift for me.

MM-Seat · 22 Mar 2018 at 12:11

Wonder if they can view your ride of sufferest?

UTmaniac · 22 Mar 2018 at 12:42

Are you a member of any Strava clubs?

On a club leaderboard, I can click a link to the longest ride of a member and see the ride details. If I click the rider's name, taking me to their summary page, no individual rides are shown.

#Chri5# · 22 Mar 2018 at 13:05

No public Sufferfest portal or logging of rides that I know of.

I'm in the OCUK group - does that count as a club? Was under an hour last night, so nowhere any longest/biggest records.

UTmaniac · 22 Mar 2018 at 14:37

#Chri5# said:
No public Sufferfest portal or logging of rides that I know of.

I'm in the OCUK group - does that count as a club? Was under an hour last night, so nowhere any longest/biggest records.

The leaderboard stats are for each week, Monday to Sunday.

I have no idea who you are on Strava, I looked up and joined the OCuk group (club) in the last few minutes.

#Chri5# · 22 Mar 2018 at 14:58

Oo, a stalker

That's the ride. I wonder if the porn-bot joins and leaves groups.

Would be nice if you could mark a ride as being visible to "followers only"

UTmaniac · 22 Mar 2018 at 15:13

Maybe it is a flaw in Strava's privacy setup? I could only see the longest ride you have done this week and last, by clicking the longest ride links for each leaderboard week. Clicking your name did not list any rides, just basic stats.

I'm Steve C on there, btw.

lordrobs · 22 Mar 2018 at 15:16

My ride last night also got a Kudos from a young lady who's body mass appears to be 50% backside according to the profile pic. Hopefully they'll just stop after a few days like the Instagram ones did.

UTmaniac · 22 Mar 2018 at 15:22

lordrobs said:
My ride last night also got a Kudos from a young lady who's body mass appears to be 50% backside according to the profile pic. Hopefully they'll just stop after a few days like the Instagram ones did.

Your account isn't using the enhanced privacy settings, I can click your Strava link in your sig and get details of rides you did each week over the last year by clicking each blue bar. I cannot do that on #Chri5#'s account.

touch · 23 Mar 2018 at 10:17

The privacy settings only hide the rides from your 'timeline'. (If somebody views your profile page, they wont see any links to your activities).

The activities themselves are not private though. Any links to the activities (from mileage leaderboards, kom leaderboards, etc) will still work, as will direct links to the activity.
Activity IDs are just consecutive numbers. Try going to the last activity you did and add 1 to the ID number in the URL and you'll see some random person's activity. It's easy for a bot to go through thousands of URLs in order and like each activity.

merlin · 23 Mar 2018 at 10:35

lordrobs said:
My ride last night also got a Kudos from a young lady who's body mass appears to be 50% backside according to the profile pic.

Jealous.

Literally every saddle she tries must be as comfy as ***k.

lordrobs · 24 Mar 2018 at 09:44

merlin said:
Jealous.

Literally every saddle she tries must be as comfy as ***k.

...or never seen again :eek:

juno_first · 10 May 2018 at 20:33

A few days after giving Strava my email I start getting new types of junk mail so I guess they sold my email to a hackers list. I'll continue with google fit that can sync with my pebble 2.