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
10 Comments
privacydingus@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 1y
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.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Not to mention go one click either direction on street view and gasp you can see the house.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Or you can just go to Bing street view.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 1y
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.
Goretantath@lemm.ee · -2 pts · 1y
Ikr, it's like begging for weirdos to fly a drone out to it and snap pics or vid..
orphigle@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
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.
Termight@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
privacydingus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I wouldn't say my take is that I am not doing this because I have nothing to hide.
Brylant@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1y
This isn't the point of this post at all
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
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.
lol_idk@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
If I had more time and motivation, I'd go around photographing those houses and posting them on Google maps with a review