Privacy on Strava

arran77

I've recently started using Strava and I set up the privacy to hide our house, this worked fine to begin with but then I noticed on my ride tonight it does not seem to have worked, can you edit a ride after its uploaded so that you do hide your house?

R0B75

It does it automatically to all rides after uploading them depending on your privacy settings. How do you know it hasn't worked, because it will show you the full route unless you're not signed in? For everyone else is should block it.

deadhead1971

Copy the URL of the activity, then log OUT of Strava.
Paste the URL back in to your address bar, and you should see that the start and end points will be a certain distance away from your actual start and end points.
As ROB75 said, if you're logged in as you, it shows you the full route.

arran77

Thanks for the replies, I thought of that myself after I posted so I logged out and searched for me in the athlete search and all was fine, start and end hidden!!!!

:oops:

dabber

In addition, if you don't consider the "Privacy Zone" big enough you can always upload your ride, then crop a bit off the start and finish. However, this will have the effect of shortening the overall recorded length of your ride by the amount you crop off from both ends.

declan1

Or a much easier way is when looking at a ride, click on the 'terrain map' drop-down menu and check the 'show privacy zone' checkbox.

Mikey23

And don't use your real name which is easy to check out via the electoral register ...

bompington

Or you can always contemplate the unthinkable and don't use strava at all...

MountainMonster

bompington wrote:

Or you can always contemplate the unthinkable and don't use strava at all...

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

iPete

A while ago I had it set to hide my name and someone on here posted a leader board screen shot, showing my full name!

Morale, don't use your full name regardless & don't list your bikes in detail. I have fixeh and CAAAD, not Di2 S-works Roubaix etc. Common sense but some people do it...

Bar Shaker

iPete wrote:

A while ago I had it set to hide my name and someone on here posted a leader board screen shot, showing my full name!

Morale, don't use your full name regardless & don't list your bikes in detail. I have fixeh and CAAAD, not Di2 S-works Roubaix etc. Common sense but some people do it...

OMG someone posted your name on the internet??? What did you do? Did bad things happen?

Someone told me about this thing called facebook or something like that. It involved me having my name on the internet. Do they think we are stupid?

iPete

Bar Shaker wrote:

iPete wrote:

A while ago I had it set to hide my name and someone on here posted a leader board screen shot, showing my full name!

Morale, don't use your full name regardless & don't list your bikes in detail. I have fixeh and CAAAD, not Di2 S-works Roubaix etc. Common sense but some people do it...

OMG someone posted your name on the internet??? What did you do? Did bad things happen?

Someone told me about this thing called facebook or something like that. It involved me having my name on the internet. Do they think we are stupid?

Was more concerned that I wasn't KOM tbfh but troll away

diy

Generally speaking its not a good idea to discuss too much of your private life on the internet.

Bad things can happen:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... pid=736229
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442

Bar Shaker

diy wrote:

Generally speaking its not a good idea to discuss too much of your private life on the internet.

Bad things can happen:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... pid=736229
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442

I agree. Using Strava to block your home and work or other addresses is a very good idea but beyond that, I think some people are too paranoid about the internet.

Posting up video of you doing something illegal is the preserve of the 'hard of thinking' and they deserve all they get.

iPete, not trolling, just very intrigued to read that you wanted to hide your name off Strava. If everyone were anonymous it would probably not have the same appeal so I am curious why you wanted to be.

Mikey23

It was my suggestion... It just seems sensible to not give folks easily accessible information that you have a shiny expensive bike in or around the house. I wasn't being paranoid I hope, and I think I was picking up on stuff that was posted here a while ago

iPete

Bar Shaker wrote:

diy wrote:

Generally speaking its not a good idea to discuss too much of your private life on the internet.

Bad things can happen:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... pid=736229
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442

I agree. Using Strava to block your home and work or other addresses is a very good idea but beyond that, I think some people are too paranoid about the internet.

Posting up video of you doing something illegal is the preserve of the 'hard of thinking' and they deserve all they get.

iPete, not trolling, just very intrigued to read that you wanted to hide your name off Strava. If everyone were anonymous it would probably not have the same appeal so I am curious why you wanted to be.

Riding London every day it's pretty easy to pick up other riders, why make it easy to track yourself down, your bikes, routes and then exactly who you are*. More concerned the database didn't work than having my name out there and it only hides your last name.

That doesn't stop people asking if I'm iPete though!

*puts on foil hat

MountainMonster

iPete wrote:

Bar Shaker wrote:

diy wrote:

Generally speaking its not a good idea to discuss too much of your private life on the internet.

Bad things can happen:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... pid=736229
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442

I agree. Using Strava to block your home and work or other addresses is a very good idea but beyond that, I think some people are too paranoid about the internet.

Posting up video of you doing something illegal is the preserve of the 'hard of thinking' and they deserve all they get.

iPete, not trolling, just very intrigued to read that you wanted to hide your name off Strava. If everyone were anonymous it would probably not have the same appeal so I am curious why you wanted to be.

Riding London every day it's pretty easy to pick up other riders, why make it easy to track yourself down, your bikes, routes and then exactly who you are*. More concerned the database didn't work than having my name out there and it only hides your last name.

That doesn't stop people asking if I'm iPete though!

*puts on foil hat

You are really paranoid. Your name will be publicly available on many places, as well as your address, your telephone numbers, most likely your work, and probably a lot of other things as well. I think Strava is the least of your worries.

marcusjb

I hear people saying Strava is the least of our worries in this day and age - but with tales of Strava being used to target expensive bikes, taking simple precautions like a made-up name and not putting bikes down as Pinarello Dogma etc. are pretty sensible. Not having details of all your bikes on your signature on forums makes sense as well.

I have two trained attack cats protecting mine, so I pity the fool who tries to take them!

MountainMonster

While they do use Strava, I would be much more worried about actually being followed home at the end of a ride than someone knowing my name on Strava. People who use fake names on the internet seem to think that if they use their real name they WILL have problems. I have a friend who when he joined Skype used a fake name because he was worried people would stalk him. I am basically the only person other than his family who talks to him, and this just comes across as looney.

iPete

MountainMonster wrote:

iPete wrote:

Bar Shaker wrote:

diy wrote:

Generally speaking its not a good idea to discuss too much of your private life on the internet.

Bad things can happen:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... pid=736229
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442

I agree. Using Strava to block your home and work or other addresses is a very good idea but beyond that, I think some people are too paranoid about the internet.

Posting up video of you doing something illegal is the preserve of the 'hard of thinking' and they deserve all they get.

iPete, not trolling, just very intrigued to read that you wanted to hide your name off Strava. If everyone were anonymous it would probably not have the same appeal so I am curious why you wanted to be.

Riding London every day it's pretty easy to pick up other riders, why make it easy to track yourself down, your bikes, routes and then exactly who you are*. More concerned the database didn't work than having my name out there and it only hides your last name.

That doesn't stop people asking if I'm iPete though!

*puts on foil hat

You are really paranoid. Your name will be publicly available on many places, as well as your address, your telephone numbers, most likely your work, and probably a lot of other things as well. I think Strava is the least of your worries.

I think you are mixing paranoid with ticking a box cos it's there. Was just pointing out that it didn't work. I know the info is out there, work with data everyday.

Churchill123

Or just do what I do, and in the what bike have you got bit I say i've got Rayleigh Chopper - Which I obviously don't but who'd want to steal a piece of shit like that!

arran77

Churchill123 wrote:

Or just do what I do, and in the what bike have you got bit I say i've got Rayleigh Chopper - Which I obviously don't but who'd want to steal a piece of shoot like that!

Loads of people, they're worth a packet now

Bar Shaker

The simple choice is - if you are worried that using Strava may increase the risk of getting your bike stolen... don't use it.

I realise that may sound really radical.