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Have you just use Strava to identify the location of someone you already know the residence of?
I've got a dozen overlapping exclusion zones around home. You'd be able to track me down to somewhere within a 2 mile radius. Which means you'd have to be pretty damn determined to find me
Its not difficult
I guess if you live in an isolated house and any reasonable exclusion zone would cover half of every ride I can understand it.
Strava isn't mandatory (yet) so it's personal choice on the risk.
Strava privacy zones aren't quite as static as some of you seem to think - the centre always stays where you put it, but the zone size varies randomly from day to day by a couple of hundred metres.
I was trying to set a privacy zone that covered my office, but not a nearby segment end and this drove me nuts for a couple of days!
That's not going to help if you live in a really small village though.
They'd have a job finding my place from my gps traces!! The exclusion zone starts at the end of the only road into my estate so leads to roughly 500 addresses. If they did manage to get the data it leads to my block which has 40 addresses. Unless they do door-door knocks they will be disappointed 😆
More likely to have it nicked when I'm washing it or at the trail head tbh, just be sensible and you'll be a harder target than someone else.
I don't use my surname on Strava. If I were that way inclined it would be quite easy to trace me through a combination of Strava & a phone book, especially if you have an uncommon surname. The exclusion zone doesn't help in that case.
Which means you'd have to be pretty damn determined to find me
Just follow the puff pastry trail...
I use my real name, with an uncommon surname.
My bikes are listed as the actual make and model.
I have no privacy zone set up.
I commute regularly.
But I counteract all this by leaving an Orange MTB unlocked outside my front door 24/7, except for when I'm riding it obviously. So, if it gets knocked I'll know the four 'better' bikes in the house are at risk, and I'll move house.
Simple 😀
Has there been a documented case where it was proven the thief used Strava to find you?
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That has worked great for my new account.
"That's a great tip Stato! "
It's not my privacy settings giving away my house that I worry about, it's my privacy settings giving away mates's houses and vise versa that concerns me. Does everyone have privacy zones set around their mate's houses and do your mates have your house set as a privacy zone? Not hard to join the dots.
So, just to be absolutely clear, if my mate and I ride from my house, my ride gets cropped for the exclusion zone but his goes from and to my house ?
If that's correct then that's useless.
(Reconsidering strava...)
Believe so, last time I checked anyway.
If that's correct then that's useless.
No, your mate is useless.
Does everyone have privacy zones set around their mate's houses and do your mates have your house set as a privacy zone?
Yes, why wouldnt you, just tell them what postcodes/details to enter on the security pages.
I just moved house and the previous owner was a biker. Looking at strava there are loads of routes that begin/end in my garden. Can I report or get them blocked somehow? I'd rather my own bikes didn't get knocked!