😅. Okay, story time:

When StreetView was introduced this dominated public debate in Germany for weeks. It was all the rage, "how dare they to photograph everything?"

One official even suggested "it's awesome, police can now patrol the streets from an office chair", because that is how much of a backwater country Germany is digitally.

Anyway, people saw immediately all the crime which all the criminal criminals would do with this tool (which tells you something about the state of mind of the "righteous folks"). Anyway, half the country was blurred, because everybody knew about it. And it is the reason, why StreetView is so patchy in Germany (or at least was for the longest time, didn't check much in recent years) compared to the neighbouring states, 'cause Google pretty much said "Fuck these fucking Germans with their fucking shit".

Apple came around some years later with their version, nobody cared anymore 😅

So now they know where you live....

Bigfoot uses this

Feeding Google more data is always a good idea...

Damn, they'll have to go all the way to zillow if they wanna case your place, huh?

Why would I do this? It’s just a door with a number on it.

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.

Anyone going to try this with the Whitehouse?

The house we moved to last year had been blurred by the previous owners. It's permanent, so we don't get a choice about it.

Tbh this is the only house I've ever looked up that was blurred.

I get why, but it's also inconvenient. So many of us (in my area, anyway) look up the house on Streetview when going to an unfamiliar address, to help orient ourselves.

It's not something I lose sleep over. But given the option, in a neighbourhood with no other blurred houses, in a low-crime, lost surveillance area, I don't think I would have chosen to blur the house.

Google maps has a picture of my house from about 10 years before i moved in and it looks exactly like all the other houses around me...

...but i should give google personal information and utility bills to get it taken down?

Nah.

The two counter arguments to this are:

1. You are giving more personal data to google to prove you live at that address.

2. 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.

don't tell google where you live

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.

This does nothing but make your house more obvious. It's better to blend in than to stick out.

Tbh the outside of my home is publicly viewable anyway. I can't think of why I'd care much.

"Google says the document is deleted after 60 days."

Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.