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Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I’m sure Strava would throw a fit if Garmin did the same.

Most of my data on Strava comes from Garmin

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I left Strava when they adjusted their 'freemium' model and hid a number of things behind a paywall. Now I just use Garmin Connect, for tracking my stuff and an 'athletic' social circle of friends via connections/news feed.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All of that makes me nauseous.

You're free to use what you want to use, but the layers of dependency on vulnerable product lines is exactly the problem

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Do you realise that we are years (decades?) away from viable open source hardware? You likely use a closed source processor with closed source chipset, GPU and closed source ram. And these are the building blocks, then you have the closed source integrations of these blocks

Same applies to fitness watches. Garmin happens to be one of the best (if not the best) hardware for the purpose, with a decent (not great, just decent) software that is very closed source and very closed in interoperability.

You may say to vote with the wallet… but where? Apple that is even more closed and restrictive? Huawei that deserves its own ethical discussion?

I haven’t looked into Suunto and Polaris but I would be shocked if they were dramatically different since this is their business, selling api and integrations

[–] neumast@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Yep, was thinking the same. And all the other brands of fitness devices...