vascof1

I noticed that Strava has now turned off flybys by default. I can no longer see them on my ride I uploaded today.

They can be reenabled in privacy settings. I wonder how many people will actually do this.

https://www.******.com/r/Strava/comm...strava_flybys/

sarhog

Well that sucks. Ive turned mine back on, but unless “everyone” else does too, its virtually a worthless feature.

Branko D

Thanks for the heads up, turned them back on.

unterhausen

I have always thought flybys was a bad feature. Sure it's interesting, but it's also very invasive of privacy. I don't think I have ever seen someone I knew on a flyby

sarhog

I’ve discovered routes that I doubt I’d ever stumble across otherwise by looking at the fly by page.

Milton Keynes

I recently found and followed someone on Strava who I met while on a ride. He was headed one direction and I another, but we stopped and chatted for a bit. Turns out I had met him and chatted with him before when he was riding his recumbent trike in my town. Just checked, and yes, my flybys were turned off. So I guess he might have had his turned on because I found him, but I was unaware mine was turned off. I care about privacy but I really don't care who sees my rides or where I was riding.

WhyFi

I turned mine back on when I saw the notification yesterday. Like others, I think that it's useful in finding new routes and sometimes making connections with like-minded individuals. That said, I do think that having the Flyby feature set to 'Off" by default is the right decision.

locolobo13 

Thanks. Didn't know. Turned it back on. Funny, everything else in Privacy is set to Everyone by default.

Chuck M 

I enjoy flybys after running races to see how I moved around in the field. I'll be turning mine back on.

taco2ewsday

They should probably do a better job encouraging people set up privacy zones around their house. That is the bigger invasion of privacy IMHO.

Troul 

it's useless to do so if another device shows your cards still...

https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...g-workout.html

taco2ewsday

I have an Elemnt Bolt and the last ride that started and ended at my house respect the privacy zone, mind you it shows me the full route but if I share the link with anyone they see the map with privacy zone

taco2ewsday

I have an Elemnt Bolt and the last ride that started and ended at my house respect the privacy zone, mind you it shows me the full route but if I share the link with anyone they see the map with privacy zone

tsmith41094

Shane Miller just posted a video on this. Bummer to see this happen.

unterhausen

Doesn't everybody just use heat maps to find new routes?

msu2001la

Lately I've been keeping my Strava more locked down and private. The flyby and segment leaderboards are cool features, but I guess maybe not my thing. I've had a few issues with road rage drivers and other idiots out there, and it made me realize that I don't really want my personal info being broadcast in a way that allows random people to easily identify me.

I still like to use the flyby and leaderboard stuff for races and group rides, but I keep all my uploads private/followers only, and only publicly broadcast a few.

Maybe the answer is that I need to make my Strava account more anonymous, and not use my real name on there?

msu2001la

That's how I do it, but I think you have to have a paid account to access heat maps.

On this topic - ridewithgps.com allows you to search routes based on location/keywords and is pretty useful if you're traveling to an unfamiliar area and looking for routes.

WhyFi

Not really. I live in an area with a lot of cyclists of varying sensibilities. The heatmap just looks like... a map. Sometimes, too much information is just as bad not enough.

wphamilton

I thought that flybys were disabled when Strava rolled out their subscription tier. Cool.

Chuck M 

I have my settings set so that mine are private until I edit them to be public or followers. If Strava would make the activity edit page so that one could set a privacy zone or allow flybys at the same time it would perhaps be better for more people.

msu2001la

I suspect the views on this topic are sharply skewed between male and female.

Squeeze

When I first started using Strava, I came home from a ride and found other people's rides linked to mine, including people using their full names. I could see where they lived, too...or at least where they started and stopped their rides, at houses on residential streets. I turned that feature off immediately. I'm not so much of a privacy freak in general, but I cannot think of anything good that could come from broadcasting this information to the world.

mack_turtle

I'm not worried about getting a stalker, but if I was, I would definitely have the privacy on Strava locked down. it's a good move to make privacy the default and allow users to opt in to share their info. most of my rides start and end at my house, so I have 1/4 mile privacy zone on it. I try to start and stop tracking my ride at the end of my block so there's no chance that some creep could find my house that way.

friday1970

I wonder if this has anything to do with a news story that a bunch of SJW's mistakenly went after the wrong guy due to an incident. The SJW/twitter army went after someone thinking a certain flyby was someone who insulted some/did something (don't exactly remember what actually started the incident). The Flyby date was close to the supposed incident, then the SJW/Twitter army used that flyby data to doxx, harrass, and someone correct me if I am wrong, get that guy fired from his job.

MinnMan

so true