<story><title>How to blur your house on Google Street View</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>Interesting, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d mind not having the street view feature. The only reason I use it is to see how foreign countries look like. What are people using it for?</text></item><item><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>Wow, this resurfaces memories when conservative boulevard publications and parties in Germany turned people to fight Google Streetview in 2009 for &amp;quot;privacy reasons&amp;quot; and everyone fell for it and blurred their house. Today, everyone I know who blurred their house hates on Streetview pictures being close to useless because they haven&amp;#x27;t been updated since 2009.&lt;p&gt;Google just didn&amp;#x27;t update them after the mess they had to handle in Germany. And why would they.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurent92</author><text>Used Google Street View and 3D when looking to buy a house. It’s 10x more telling than the actual ad. You can see the slope, street size, the freespace on the sides, neighborhood debsity, the actual land size, the roof constitution. Ad photos tell you how it was renovated inside, which tells you nothing that you need to know.&lt;p&gt;It did fee like invading people in their garden, especially the satellite&amp;#x2F;3D view. But so do the photos: if you are politically exposed or a Youtuber, it’s annoying to know people can use the ad photos to disqualify you on poverty topics.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to blur your house on Google Street View</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>Interesting, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d mind not having the street view feature. The only reason I use it is to see how foreign countries look like. What are people using it for?</text></item><item><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>Wow, this resurfaces memories when conservative boulevard publications and parties in Germany turned people to fight Google Streetview in 2009 for &amp;quot;privacy reasons&amp;quot; and everyone fell for it and blurred their house. Today, everyone I know who blurred their house hates on Streetview pictures being close to useless because they haven&amp;#x27;t been updated since 2009.&lt;p&gt;Google just didn&amp;#x27;t update them after the mess they had to handle in Germany. And why would they.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>When I was buying my house, I used it to check out a neighborhood as a first-cut filter, prior to spending the time &amp;amp; gas to go drive around in person.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m driving somewhere new, I&amp;#x27;ll use it to identify landmarks for turns. While I&amp;#x27;ll often have the spoken map directions going on my phone, if the intersection is complex, streetview can help me get into the correct turn lane.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to use it for Germany prior to a trip a couple of years ago, but it looks like very little of the country has coverage, which is annoying. But it&amp;#x27;s their country and if they don&amp;#x27;t want camera cars photographing everything I can understand that.[0]&lt;p&gt;[0] I had a neighbor get divorced because of streetview.  Back when it was new, the first thing everyone did was look up their home. Well, my neighbor saw a custom motorcycle parked out front that was not his.</text></comment>