we should blur everything
Pretty much the state of gmaps in Germany already.
hell yes i love making things on the internet super annoying to use
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
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.
That means you didn’t think enough of the potential nefarious usage of this informations could allow.
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.
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.
Hyperbole is indistinguishable from lying in a conversation like this one.
IDEA: an AI that crawls Street View, ranks addresses by ease of break-in, and generates plans for pulling off heists.
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
In the geoguessr community, Germany is commonly referred to as “Blurmany” because so many buildings are blurred
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
I’ve also heard it’s a one way street (dad pun) - meaning it’s not reversible
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.
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?
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
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?
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