Do no do this, it will require more info to Google and make your house stick out like a sore thumb.
Feeding Google more data is always a good idea…
Anyone going to try this with the Whitehouse?
don’t tell google where you live
how hard would it be to just do this automatically for every address? to bring down the street view machine for good?
I’m not suggesting anyone do this, I am just curious how it would work or how it would play out.
Lol as i am going to send google extra information to get a bit more privacy back. Thata stupid
I’d rather my door be visible than tell google where I live.
Google already knows. They just don’t have a reason to check usually.
Do they though? They aren’t some kind of god how would they know your if you don’t tell them your address or someone else tells them for you?
One of the most pernicious cookies is the one that allows them to identify nearby devices. Even if you do not allow location specifically, consider exactly how much location data can be pieced together from that alone. It’s impossible to overestimate the amount of data they have on you.
If you own your house, most states in the US publish a GIS map where that information is public.
If you read you’d have seen you can redact your name from the document
This does nothing but make your house more obvious. It’s better to blend in than to stick out.
It makes it harder to case the house though. If the street view shows a low overhang, with a easy way up to a second story window, or maybe a tree, A/C heat pump, all sorts of things, then I could see an argument for wanting that blurred.
This should be opt-in, not opt out. IDGAF if it is public information that is perfectly viewable from the street, it shouldn’t be on the internet without my consent. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to blur your house aside from the worry of petty thieves. One, your privacy should be treated with respect. Streisand Effect doesn’t really apply here because no one gives a shit if your house is blurred. No one cares as streetview passers by. Talk to your neighbors and then the whole street is blurred like my old street.
This does not obviate the need for action at the legislative level. Google has used the streetview cars to collect plates and radio signals including WiFi information, who knows what else. They have so many databases of information on each of us to sell to adverts and to give freely to police.
This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.
This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.
It’s not, it’s less than Google used to do for these requests. In 2009, I requested my house be taken off streetview. They removed it by skipping mine and a few houses on each side.
Then they went down my back lane, so everyone got a good look at my back yard anyway.
Privacy today is a never ending battle, but Google started this nonsense a long time ago.
No disagreement. Like I said, privacy rights are not in a good place. 🤷
Being the only blurred thing in the area seems a little conspicuous though
I just tell people I was out of focus when I was born, and doctors weren’t able to correct it.
Someone on my street has done this and it completely fucks with street view for my own house, even though the blurred house is on a sheet running perpendicular to my street
I don’t understand why anyone would do this, if anything all it does is draw massive attention to the fact that someone wanted their house blurred.
What is funny about the house that did it on my street move down one jump and look back and it isn’t blurred.
This is such a backwards-ass way to do things. I built my house using extra large bricks so it would be pixelated to begin with
“permanant”
Brought to you by the same companies that “accidentally” re-add you to their spam lists.
But now your making yourself more obvious, and you need to tell google your address. Is it really worth it?
You can blur your name on the proof document. Just don’t be logged in
“Just don’t be logged in” is not gonna be enough, if the device is the same as you normally use and you haven’t taken extra steps to make sure the device isn’t identifiable. I’d recommend doing this from a public library computer or similar public device.
Certainly, I didn’t think it was worth mentioning, don’t use the same browser when you have identifying cookies, try to change IP, and other biometric identifications
Doing it on tor would work.
burglars do their recon in pajamas now. Make them commute
Hey now, no need to bash wfh!
