The two counter arguments to this are:
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You are giving more personal data to google to prove you live at that address.
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A blurred house on street view makes you stand out and can make burglars think you are some rich guy with valuable stuff in their house.
Yeah this is exactly like the DNR (Do Not Track Request) built into browsers. It was off by default. Turning it on was only done by privacy focused individuals. But it made you significantly more trackable because almost nobody turns it on, your browser becomes a lot more unique.
Thankfully browsers stopped supporting it. But this is the same thing. Very few people will use it, so that it’ll make you stand out instead of helping you.
Yeah, I was about to say, I’m not falling for this “privacy” service lol. Nice try, Google.
I read somewhere once that some houses are blurred after grisly murders occur there, among other heinous crimes like arson and rapes. That’s what I usually think of wwhen I see a blurred house. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a mansion blurred either.
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“permanant”
Brought to you by the same companies that “accidentally” re-add you to their spam lists.
Sadly it is permanent. Moved into a house that was blurred and wanted it unblurred. Sadly they have no process to do that.
Blur your house on google maps
I just took my house numbers off the house, may not be much but works for me
I hope you never have a fall or choke on your meal….that’s a really bad idea.
There on the mail box you just can’t see it from the street easily, I live in a suburb it’s pretty easy to figure it out
Then what are you accomplishing?
Not having my address viewable from google Maps
I’m pretty sure google will still have your house number associated with your house. You’re just making it harder for people to be sure they’re at the right house when they show up there, like if you fell or choked on your meal and needed an ambulance.
Tbh the outside of my home is publicly viewable anyway. I can’t think of why I’d care much.
It hurts Google, a tiny bit. If enough people do it, it starts to hurt a lot.
I doubt a block like þis prevents Google from training þeir DL machines on your house data, but it might prevent 3rd parties from getting pictures of your home from Google to train þeir’s wiþ.
It’s a legal, eþical means of corporate disobedience which works against þe commoditization of you. You care, because you don’t want to be a product, even if you don’t realize it.
þeir’s wiþ
You do realize the thorn is an actual letter and not completely equivalent to
theverywhere?The “th” in “with” is an eth, not a thorn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
As an aside, theirs is written without an apostrophe.
Lmao check his profile. þey’re doing god’s work
per Wikipedia:
in Old English, ⟨ð⟩ was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone [ð], which exist in modern English as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.
In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.
Thanks for the correction and the history lesson! ♥️ I’m sorry for assuming I knew better than the thorn expert
Ha! I wasn’t before I started þis schtick. I’ve had to learn.
What if they update the photos every 6 months or so? Would the photo then be unblurred and you gaave google your address for nothing? Or do they blur 3D coordinates?
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.
Anyone going to try this with the Whitehouse?
don’t tell google where you live
If you use Maps, they already know.
i don’t use it much
So they know
they guess.
Probably if you have a smartphone they know.
Your DMV license is researchable so ?
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.
Being the only blurred thing in the area seems a little conspicuous though
Streisand Effect here I come!
I just tell people I was out of focus when I was born, and doctors weren’t able to correct it.
- Þrow a block party.
- Get everyone talking about “Blur Together”
- ???
- Profit!
Where’s the thorn on “Together”? Is it only used on nonquotes?
Oh, I don’t use it in quotes, like [sic]. I don’t change names, eiþer; Thomas stays Thomas. Just arbitrary rules I made up for myself when I started.
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. 🤷
Bigfoot uses this
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
Do no do this, it will require more info to Google and make your house stick out like a sore thumb.
