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

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    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.

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    1 day 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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      22 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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    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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      1 day ago

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

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    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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    2 hours ago

    When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’