Yup. Or they were “surprised” by the negative feedback and press they have received.
In any case, Strava‘s leadership should have known.
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From the diff checker comparison:
“For the avoidance of doubt, you may not display or disclose Strava Data related to other users, even if such data is publicly viewable on Strava’s Platform.”
This was in a whole new section saying that data could still be shared in a “community app” of under 10,000 users.
That doesn’t sound like the person writing the email misunderstood, the explicit wording was there and nothing about coaching also being exempt.
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Maybe Strava is working on it’s own AI coaching platform and this was a way to try and convert users from other platforms by revoking shared data.
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Got a link to export of my data. Once I’ve got to my PC to grab MY data; it’s going to be deleted from Strava together with my account.
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Kind of par for the course at this point it seems. They’re just doing things to do it without really fixing the underlying issues users want to see fixed.
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I think I’m slowly starting to understand what Strava are trying to stop now - and I think it is something that is worth them trying to control - but their communication is terrible 
So, for example, in the case of me, Strava and TrainerRoad…
I set it so only my followers can see my Strava activities but I also share those activities with TrainerRoad.
Currently, unless I also set my TrainerRoad account to private (which I do), all those Strava rides that I have tried to hide become visible to all other TrainerRoad users. Essentially providing a window into Strava that I may forget about in the future.
I actually think that is something they might legitimately feel like that should try to stop.
Edit: Apologies to TR if the above isn’t the case - I haven’t actually checked - but can imagine it being true on other platforms if not TR…
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Strava has always had poor business people and poor developers (bugs that last for years). They’ve wanted to monetize this into a billion dollar company but don’t have a magic revenue generating formula. The premium features they build only appeal to a small number of athletes. Most riders just want the kudos and to see that they rode more miles than their friends.
Strava would have been a great medium sized business with tens of millions of revenue but they got private equity goons who want a billion dollar pay day.
Strava took away features and people still didn’t sign up. They just got annoyed.
This latest change looks like they were or are going to try to extract license fees for being the hub - Apple, Garmin, and Wahoo can contribute to their bottom line Now, they have backpedaled a bit with the > 10,000. We’ll see if it works.
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This year I set the majority of my rides to Private and stopped playing the Kudos game.
Now with its latest anti-consumer move I hit the cancel button. Garmin - TR - TP are the main platforms I use. No reason to have another annual fee for an app that isn’t useful.
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How long did it take for them to send it? I’ve been waiting since shortly after this all started. That’s not too long, but I saw someone also say it only took a few hours.
Few hours for me.
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Anyone “LEFT ON” Strava seems more appropriate 
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I continue to get likes on this post and I now need to caveat that it’s certainly doing its best to NOT be the data broker that we all love it to be.
I’ve also been waiting since yesterday, and still no link. I have over 4,500 activities in there, but I can’t imagine that would make a difference. Could just be flooded with requests I suppose.
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Yeah, it’s odd that some of us are waiting and others got it in a couple hours. I posted in the other thread that I also learned this morning that you have to wait a week to ask again.
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Yep, saw that message too when I checked this am.
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I first requested mine a couple of weeks ago, before this all kicked off, and they never sent me the link for that request…
After waiting a long time I requested it again and this time was sent the link pronto, within 15 mins I think.
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I received my data export request after a few hours I believe. I requested it a few days ago, not because I’m leaving Strava, but because I was curious what the CSV looked like of all my rides. I’ve kept a manual Excel spreadsheet for over 15 years now and keeping up with it gets time consuming and a bit annoying, but I love having all the data. Would really like to automate something that’s a bit easier to keep up with but is not housed on someone’s servers that could get hacked/shut down/etc. I realize the chance of losing data is very minimal, but I don’t like putting data I hold dear in the sole hands of others.
One odd thing I noticed is that my CSV export doesn’t include any of my manual-entry rides that I added to Strava from years ago. Has anyone else noticed this?
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As noted on the API thread, I cancelled my Premium subscription today and asked for a refund on any remaining months.
TBD if I delete my whole account…definitely a possibility.
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Just got my refund after a week. I am seriously thinking about deleting the account. They still get my rides “for free.”
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