This way they could know who's devices' fingerprint is attached to a certain address. Another way to sell customer's data to ads companies.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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Yeah, they claim only property owners or tenants can request it, which means I would have to prove that to be compliant w/ their policy.
Anyone can take pictures of my house. That's 100% within the law, provided they take it from outside my property. So to blur it, I have to give them PII (which they probably have anyway), but it doesn't actually stop them from changing their policy and unblurring it later.
So yeah, I'm not going to bother w/ this.
This unironicly lowers property value. Buyers like scouting out new homes on street view.
It also supposedly makes you a bigger target for would-be burglars who scout google maps for targets. It makes your house stand out and makes them think you have something valuable to hide.
100% the Streisand effect! Blurred homes attract way more attention.
The only time I heard someone justify blurring their home, it was "so that thieves don't know where my cameras are". But I'd think the opposite was true.
unironicly (sp)
No one would have mistaken that for a jest.
Its more like tragic Irony.
Tragic irony, a prominent literary device, involves a poignant disjunction between the audience’s awareness of critical information and the obliviousness of the characters within a narrative.