Strava's Big Changes Aim to Kill Off Apps(dcrainmaker.com)

14 pointsby canucker2016há 2 anos4 comments

Strava's Big Changes Aim to Kill Off Apps

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/11/stravas-changes-to-kill-off-apps.html

4 comments

canucker2016há 2 anos

from the article:

    #1: “Third-party apps are no longer able to display your Strava activity data on their surfaces to other users.”

    #2: “We’re updating our terms to explicitly prohibit third parties from using any data obtained via Strava’s API in artificial intelligence models or other similar applications.”

    #3: “You may not process or disclose Strava Data…for the purposes of, including but not limited to, analytics, analyses…”

canucker2016há 2 anos

Also:

    They also included language that apps are somehow not allowed to replicate Strava’s “distinctive look and feel”, which…ok. And more hilariously, they added that any users posting to their community hub forums that are “requesting or attempting to have Strava revert business decisions will not be permitted” and summarily deleted.

They've adopted Apple's "best practices".

urbandw311erhá 2 anos

This feels like a rerun of the Twitter third party API changes. And that didn’t work out so well for Twitter.

bitnastyhá 2 anos

Maybe they’re prepping to sell to Elon. Man needs his KOMs.