This "data I am collecting on your behalf" you should elaborate more. How does Strava profit from your data in your opinion?

For the constant nagging I'm with you.

Is there a way to disable the message that pops up every time I click on one of my runs?

''There's so much more to Strava'' start a free trial.

It is getting rather annoying

Hello! 
Thank you all for your posts and we apologize for the inconvenience. We will share your feedback with our team.
We appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback. 

c'mon... it's every day, every time i view an activity... is this on purpose? it is so annoying

I was searching to see if it's just me and joined especially so I could comment now- seriously every time I click on something there's a popup now

Strava shares aggregated information with third parties for research, business, or other purposes. It may not be your explicit personal info, but all info gathered through their app is collected and sold. 

it's good to remember, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product"

Hello @jakeisodd 

Thanks for your post.  I wanted to provide some clarification on this topic.  You can choose whether to contribute your public activities to de-identified, aggregate data sets.

Find out more here

I completely agreee it's abusive since Strava would be just be worth far less without data from free users, which you monetize.

If Strava offered more tiers (eg one just for creating/using routes) I would re-subscribe. But you're nagging us with too many paid features that we don't really use.

THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO STRAVA!

I couldn’t agree with you more. I used to be a paying subscriber but the rate hike went up way too much last year. Now it’s daily nagging to pay. Makes me want to use another app all together.