Blur Your House On Google
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from 0x7466@europe.pub to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 2025 07:52
https://europe.pub/post/9314
from 0x7466@europe.pub to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 2025 07:52
https://europe.pub/post/9314
cross-posted from: 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.
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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.
Not to mention go one click either direction on street view and gasp you can see the house.
Or you can just go to Bing street view.
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.
Ikr, it’s like begging for weirdos to fly a drone out to it and snap pics or vid…
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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I wouldn’t say my take is that I am not doing this because I have nothing to hide.
This isn’t the point of this post at all
I looked up a house recently as part of a Craigslist transaction and noticed it was the only blurred one in the street. I checked its Zillow listing and saw way more than what you could see on Street View anyway and chuckled. When I got there I saw there was a Tesla parked on the driveway which probably explained why it was blurred in the first place.
If I had more time and motivation, I’d go around photographing those houses and posting them on Google maps with a review