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asdfadfas commented on Strava abruptly ends 3rd party data sync to Apple Health   dcrainmaker.com/2022/03/s... · Posted by u/andyzei
voigt · 3 years ago
Is there any OSS/self hosted alternative to Strava? Where would be the challenges?
asdfadfas · 3 years ago
I built one for myself, sqlite + apache superset. I basically did that because over the years I had switched devices from different companies and I used to use endomondo which was shut down. I wanted to have all my data in once place. It does require me to export data from device and use my import script once a while, however works for me.
asdfadfas commented on Strava abruptly ends 3rd party data sync to Apple Health   dcrainmaker.com/2022/03/s... · Posted by u/andyzei
cheeze · 3 years ago
Many people don't care about health data being monetized. I don't personally care if Strava sells my heart rate data or where I rode my bike today. I'm fine with trading them that data for their heat map, which is super useful in planning rides.

To me, it comes down to me being fine with this data being considered public. If others don't want to share it, that's totally fine and I understand their perspective. For me though? I couldn't care less.

Congrats, you sold some data that says I'm fat, out of shape, and don't like riding my bike on busy roads.

asdfadfas · 3 years ago
> Congrats, you sold some data that says I'm fat, out of shape, and don't like riding my bike on busy roads.

I can only imagine anyone buying the data does so only if they believe they can make more using the data. I don't think I know of anyone doing this now (not sure if there is regulation preventing this), but its not hard to imagine a eventuality where your health data/work out information can be used by your health insurance provider.

Imagine a scenario, your bmi is higher than normal and is trending higher in the past few months, so that increases your risk for x and hence your insurance premiums go up. Would you care then?

u/asdfadfas

KarmaCake day2March 15, 2022View Original