Blur Street View Imagery - Google Maps Help
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Google Street View cars capture images from public roads, which might include your home. If an image contains inappropriate content, or you prefer your home not be shown, you can request it to be blur

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.comEnglish
    1·
    1 day 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.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    272·
    2 days 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.

    • Goretantath@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

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

  • PrivacyDingus@lemmy.ml
    401·
    2 days 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.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

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

  • Orphigle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 days 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.