cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9311

In case you ever wanted to blur your house from google street view you can. A little privacy i suppose, its pretty easy. you dont need a reason to do it. This probaly the only thing google lets opt out of which is cool.

Originally posted on Reddit

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Thanks, but I’ll pass. Currently, it’s just a random house; but if I blurred it, it would stick out like a sore thumb and possibly attract attention.

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      6 hours ago

      Ikr, it’s like begging for weirdos to fly a drone out to it and snap pics or vid…

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    12 hours ago

    I find these “privacy” features very funny. Not strictly streets-related, but there are also apps like Google Earth, satellites.pro and such. I find it funny how one such service decides to blur out military complexes of some countries while another one does not and displays them clearly in the satellite photos.

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    16 hours ago

    It is; I would be mindful that one blurred house on a street of unblurred houses probably creates more intrigue to anyone casually looking at that street.

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      12 hours ago

      Not to mention go one click either direction on street view and gasp you can see the house.

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    8 hours ago

    I did this a year ago, and as @[email protected] & @[email protected] mentioned: “if I blurred it, it would stick out” or “one blurred house on a street of unblurred houses probably creates more intrigue”. However, others may have seen my blurred house and applied the same level of privacy. Now the map has four blurred houses, again possibly because I did it first. “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ ”

    P.S. The amount of laughs I get from companies that buy blurred images from Google is worth the disturbance of having a blur. Spam emails & spam postal mail arrive with blur images that they purchased from Google. Also, so many online sites like Zillow, Trulia, etc, all pull from Google and may have a little more difficulty profiting from this blur data. While I have “nothing to hide”, maybe someone out there does need to hide but is afraid of just being the only house that has been blurred. The more people do this, the more it might help those who really need privacy versus those who just want Google and capitalistic monopolies to leave them alone.