What you doing Strava?!

[Mr Ted]

So, I have a Strava account with sharing to other social networks all switched off.

Why then, within minutes of following someone who I have never contacted, not got details of in any shape or form on any other network, would Facebook show them as a suggested friend? The information can only have come from Strava, their privacy policy clearly states any of my info that they share with third parties is de-indentified

Anyone else had this happen?

[MrBarry123]

That's one hell of a coincidence isn't it!?

Many companies have conveniently refused to answer yes or no as to whether this practice goes on so I think it's fair to assume they don't given I'm sure they'd be honest with their users and not prioritise profit over privacy...

[Getragdogleg]

Look at it from the other way, its probably facebook trawling your devices and other accounts and suggesting based off what it finds..

[The_Jackal]

This ^^^^

[TheFungle]

My Facebook and Strava are linked and 'friends of friends' do pop up on Facebook as a suggestion.

However I can't ever recall following an 'interesting stranger' with no common friends appearing as a suggestion.

Is this person linked with any of your FB friends?

[S100HP]

I'm sure it will be Facebook. Do you sign into Strava using it?

[Mr Ted]

S100HP said:

I'm sure it will be Facebook. Do you sign into Strava using it?

Hi, no I always use my Strava login and have never connected the two, the only common factor was the fact I hadn't cleared any cookies having been on Strava and before I went on Facebook, can Facebook mine data out of another application's cookie perhaps? Need a tech savvie teenager !!

The guy who was suggested by FB wouldn't be a friend of any of my limited number of friends, I have racked my brain trying to find a connection and can only conclude that either Strava fed data to FB or FB mined the data somehow.

I am using a Chromebook for anyone interested!

[WolfieBot]

Could it have worked the other way?

I.e the person you have followed on strava has his strava and facebook accounts linked, so his facebook suggests you to him as a friend. Facebook know it's suggested you as a friend to him so closes the circle and offers you that same suggestion?

[outnumbered]

WolfieBot said:

Could it have worked the other way?

I.e the person you have followed on strava has his strava and facebook accounts linked, so his facebook suggests you to him as a friend. Facebook know it's suggested you as a friend to him so closes the circle and offers you that same suggestion?

This is certainly possible.

[ecs]

Strava has Facebook (and Twitter) tracking cookies on it, it figures out who you are based on those. Much like adverts follow you around from website to website.