{"id":187866,"date":"2025-10-03T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:12:07","slug":"update-strava-cpo-takes-garmin-beef-to-the-court-of-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187866\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Strava CPO takes Garmin beef to the court of … Reddit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Strava\u2019s very odd attempt to drag Garmin into a legal battle<\/a> wasn\u2019t strange enough on its own, a Strava employee trying to drag Garmin in the court of public opinion just made it worse.<\/p>\n

Matt Salazar, the Chief Product Officer at Strava, took to Reddit, of all places, to try restore Strava\u2019s reputation after it was revealed yesterday that the social training platform was taking Garmin to court for, uh, questionable reasons.<\/p>\n

Salazar\u2019s attempt to appeal to the common person \/ Strava user went about as well as you\u2019d expect. Which is not very well at all. Not that appealing to the comments section of an online forum was ever going to go well, but the Garmin actions Salazar attempted to paint as villanous also happened to perfectly describe recent actions taken by Strava<\/a>. So this went spectacularly bad. I can all but see Salazar staring at his screen and muttering \u201cI\u2019ve made a huge mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

An appeal to the court of public opinion<\/p>\n

Salazar\u2019s attempt to \u201cset the record straight\u201d about why Strava was going after Garmin boiled down to two points. One, Garmin is requesting attribution on the Strava platform for data collected by Garmin devices. Two, Strava thinks this is an unfair request of users and the lawsuit is Strava\u2019s attempt to ride into battle to defend its users freedom.<\/p>\n

To quote Salazar\u2019s Reddit post directly:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider this to be YOUR data. If you recorded an activity on your watch, we think that is your data. We believe you should be able to freely transfer or upload that data without requiring logos to be displayed alongside it or have that data be used as an advertisement to sell more watches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redditors in the comment were very quick to point out that Strava pretending to protect users\u2019 data is a hypocritical position, at best. Especially considering the platform recently tried to hold its own API partners hostage, until it faced public backlash<\/a>. This effectively killed off users ability to use \u201ctheir data\u201d from Strava on a growing ecosystem of third-party sites that provided different analysis or breakdowns of that data. Others pointed out that the platform has made it quite difficult for users to control what of \u201ctheir data\u201d was shared publicly in the past, even when it potentially lead to safety issues for users<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that this all but admits that DC Rainmaker\u2019s hypothesis in his very detailed breakdown of the dispute when he broke the story<\/a>, that this entire legal misadventure is about adding tiny logo in Strava, is likely right on the money.<\/p>\n

As many users pointed out, this attempt to win users hearts looked a lot more like a public admission. Accusing Garmin of \u201ccaring more about their marketing than your user experience\u201d sounds a lot like the\u00a0pot calling the kettle black.<\/p>\n

You can read the original post and the lengthy responses on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Strava\u2019s very odd attempt to drag Garmin into a legal battle wasn\u2019t strange enough on its own,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,1245,8127,59069,61],"class_list":["post-187866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-garmin","tag-lawsuit","tag-strava","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}