- Strava is allowing users to publish external links again
- The function is available in descriptions and athlete profiles.
- Announced in a blog post, the function was originally eliminated in September
Strava, one of the best physical conditioning applications, eliminated almost all external URLs on their platform in September 2024, and stopped users to publish them completely. However, as of March 3, users can now publish links again in athlete profiles, club descriptions, event descriptions and activities descriptions.
Strava took these drastic measures five months after what he said it was “a sustained campaign of non -authentic content”, including bots that are linked to pornographic sites.
However, closing all external links resulted in a protest of its users, as in some cases, years of links published to training plans, external blog posts and fund collection pages were erased during the night.
According to reports, Strava even eliminated other content, including anything separated by a decimal point, according to users of the Subbreeddit Stravaresulting in users with executions labeled such as ‘4.5 km easy execution’ simply showing ‘easy execution’. Strava may have confused these execution names with URL due to the decimal point.
Strava is now using AI to monitor its application
In October 2024, Strava published in his community center, stating: “Community security is our highest priority, and we will take any necessary measure to protect them. As this is a continuous situation, we currently do not have a timeline for when the link filtering will end, but we appreciate the patience of the community while we work to keep everyone in Strava Seguros. “
Yesterday (March 4), Strava Community Center Page was updated, indicating “at the end of 2024, we temporarily eliminated the links in response to an increase in the harmful spam that was addressed to Strava users with fraudulent and misleading content. These attacks put our community at risk, so we immediately take measures to protect the scam athletes and malicious intention.
We have been working hard to improve our spam detection systems to keep Strava a space of trust for users. With our updated automatic learning model, we can better detect and block the suspicious activity, so that you can share links in the places that matter most. ”
It seems that Strava has improved his AI sufficiently so that he can now detect non -authentic content. While it is very important to safeguard your user base of bad actors and malicious content, Strava, without a doubt, hopes that your updated automatic learning model will be less agitation for its users in the future as it continues to monitor the platform.
