Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO | TechCrunch
To stop scraping, the company is increasing security around its website and will now only allow authenticated users to view certain data. Earlier, users were able to see details like public profiles and fitness club listings without logging in. The company is putting all that data behind authentication to protect it from unauthorized AI scraping.
Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO | TechCrunch Image Credits: DBenitostock, altered by TechCrunch / Getty Images Apps Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO Ivan Mehta 5:00 AM PDT · June 1, 2026 AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like respecting robots.txt files , which signal to automated crawlers which parts of a website are off-limits — and scrape data aggressively . This has forced websites to restrict access to their data a
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