I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.
I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.
Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?
I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don’t think I’m capable of doing that yet.
I’m using a Garmin watch with GadgetBridge. I’ve never had the watch connected to any Garmin app.
Okay I just wrote basically the same post 😀
Just got a Garmin Instinct 2S Solar, it was smooth sailing with Gadgetbridge for me. Would have preferred a non-US company, but to my knowledge, there aren’t really any alternatives with respect to the feature set I was after that played as nice with Gadgetbridge. Not really sure why they have not locked down their devices more, surely lines would have gone more up if they did? But it is appreciated.
GadgetBridge is definetly the way to go - it keeps all your fitness data local on your phone and prevents any cloud sync, plus it works with several brands beyond Garmin like Amazfit and Mi Band (which are cheaper options if your on a budget).
By the way one more thing why you want to switch to Gadgetbridge is to stop firmware update, because at one point, the enshittification update will come. Sadly, too late for me, my gps went from locking within seconds to locking within the next 30 minutes :(
I use a garmin watch with Garmins services. Not idea and might look into gadget bridge but I chose it precisely because they’re the most privacy friendly.