Wouldn’t it be funny if everyone did that, making Street View completely useless lol
Google Street View wasn’t updated for 15 years in Germany because of that. There was a huge drama when it was first announced and people were scared it would be used by criminals to scout buildings, leading to everyone blurring their houses. It got so bad that Google basically just gave up.
I remember looking up an address in 2020, only to find out that the house didn’t even exist yet on the capture from 2008 lol.
Man I like germany because people care about privacy
You have no idea how many times I heard “but I have nothing to hide” in germany.
We’re still protected, but the public opinion on it was successfully shifted
If you think people being able to see the outside of a building on a public street is a privacy problem, I really don’t know what to tell you.
People passing by and getting a temporary snapshot with their eyes? No problem
A tech monopoly putting photos online, for anyone anywhere at any time to see, and constantly updating the photos? Thats a problem.
Without even thinking hard I can imagine several malicious uses like stalkers finding their victims home, or burglars casing neighborhoods for gates or cameras.
You naïveté does not define the norm for everyone else. Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.
IDEA: an AI that crawls Street View, ranks addresses by ease of break-in, and generates plans for pulling off heists.
Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.
If you can’t make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don’t have an actual point.
If you can’t make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don’t have an actual point.
I made my point, twice even. That final example is what’s know as hyperbole, trying to make the point get across to you by over exaggerating. You ignored two examples (stalkers and burglars), to focus that. Moving the goalposts is an entire different thing.
hyperbole
- Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
That means you didn’t think enough of the potential nefarious usage of this informations could allow.
In the geoguessr community, Germany is commonly referred to as “Blurmany” because so many buildings are blurred
Food delivery scammers will often do this and blur out their whole street. That way, when they report to their Uber Eats that they never got their order, the support team can’t compare the driver’s delivery photo to anything and will usually refund the meal because of it.
Does Google require proof you live there and give that info to the cookie monster that powers its profits??
Am I too paranoid at this point?
Google already knows where you live.
The data scraping came from inside the house
How does Google know where I live?
Posted on a Google Pixel 9 Pro
Nick Fuentes did this last year when he assaulted a woman who knocked on his door.
Of course, it’s not hard to figure out what building is in-between numbers 1824 and 1828…
Don’t leave us hanging, what building is in between?
The one that smells like a piece of Nazi shit.
Remember, you still live in the location, so you can always step outside to see your home if you need a reminder of its appearance
Lol
wow this specific building must be loaded with valuables
we should blur everything
The method is… too simple? So anyone can blur anyones anything?
It’s also just dumb that imagery taken from a street isn’t doing anything privacy-invading or illegal yet they still feel the need to coddle paranoid NIMBYs. Street View can sometimes be useful for OSM, since you might’ve been there but forgotten to document something, are too far away, etc. Street View as a concept works to the public’s benefit, although Google owning it and it being proprietary isn’t good. I can see this feature being a good thing by probably one out of every thousand times it’s actually used, namely in the case that you have some kind of stalker (even then, though, satellite view 99% of the time would give you a concerning amount of info compared to Street View).
Yeah, I have a hard time seeing a way that one can really do a while lot to create privacy issues with Google Street View.
There just isn’t anything else to really combine the data with that exposes data that otherwise was private, or issues created by the scale.
Maybe if Google could one day use the database to identify a location from a photo, but then it’s not really the Street View service at issue.
A scammer will use an image of your house for a rental ad. They will have a locksmith change the locks and rent the house out to an unsuspecting family. Then you have to evict them to get your house back.
So the scammer could save the trouble of taking their own photo?
A little difficult to take a photo from nigeria.
Yeah, I’m surprised they don’t at least verify your address.
I’ve also heard it’s a one way street (dad pun) - meaning it’s not reversible
We need to get a group of houses in the shape of a penis to all blur there house’s
Time to penis – 2:18
hell yes i love making things on the internet super annoying to use
Feels like the Streisand effect would apply
Exactly. Everyone in Scotland knows what town former prime minister Gordon Brown lives in. Thanks to Google Maps, we know the exact address. It’s the only blurred-out house.
Don’t do it. It lowers your property value.
Edit: not sure why I’m being downvoted? It’s true. It lowers the value. Downvoting factual statements isn’t a good look for the community guys… Idk by how much it’ll lower the value, but prospective buyers/realtors may look for homes on google maps, and if it’s bkurred then they’ll skip over it. Less buyers interested in the home = less offers = lower value. It’s pretty simple.
Houses are meant for living. Fuck property value.
It also draws attention and could make you a target. Like, I disdain the whole “what do you have to hide” fallacy, but that’s the impression that’d be broadcast to anyone who sees your place on streetview if you were to blur it out.
This is the first one I thought of, someone who may not even be interested in your property will look at that, and wonder what you’re hiding.
Then they get to my house and go " Ohhhh a shitty looking house, that’s what you were hiding"
If you’re selling your house, the real estate agent will take photos of the house from every angle, the only reason to be on street view is to look at the rest of the neighborhood.
I don’t believe it would lower the value of the property by any significant amount.
In a country where housing is being sold at 150%+ of asking price this is completely irrelevant. So many paper millionaires are one step away from homelessness because property values are out of control.
Don’t see how this is relevant to my answer. Any homeowner with half a brain wouldn’t voluntarily lower the value of their home.
