Stravas Huge Privacy Zone Expansion: Hands on Explainer

Today Strava announced two sets of privacyfocused changes, arguably the biggest shift the platform has done in years with respect to user privacy. These new features allow you to significantly change what others can see about your activities, including everything from hiding which data metrics people see, to whether people see a location map at all, and new customization of how privacy zones work. The new features can be applied on a peractivity basis, or across all new activities. Note that while these features are being announced today, they wont reach all users till next Wednesday August 18th, 2021. Some users will have access to them now, but expect a full rollout by then. Ive been using both sets of features for a bit now, and ironically, traveling right now is probably the greatest example of how much better the new tools are than the old tools. Ive divided things up into two buckets: Privacyzone type features (basically hiding where you live, stay), and then activity privacyrelated features