Stage 3: Ripping you off · Health & fitness

Ads, fees, dark patterns, and worse defaults as incentives tilt from pleasing users toward harvesting value.

Fitbit
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Popular fitness trackers now owned by Google, which made moving your health data into a Google account mandatory.

Health & fitness Platform Since 2009
Strava
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The social network for runners and cyclists, which in 2024 walled off its data from the third-party apps built around it.

Health & fitness Platform Since 2009