Solved How to Keep Your Home Private on Google Street View


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Hide your home from digital view by using this simple command.
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At first glance, that might not seem like a big deal, but it does raise privacy concerns. If you'd rather not have your home visible to strangers online, there are simple steps you can take to make it less exposed.

With a few quick steps, you can help protect your privacy and limit how much strangers can see of your personal space. Here's how.
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www.cnet.com

The Secret Google Maps Setting That Blurs Your Home From Creeps

Here's how you can blur out your home on Google Maps so that it's not accessible to others.
www.cnet.com www.cnet.com
 

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Borg 386 said:
www.cnet.com

The Secret Google Maps Setting That Blurs Your Home From Creeps

Here's how you can blur out your home on Google Maps so that it's not accessible to others.
www.cnet.com www.cnet.com
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"using this simple command" but "With a few quick steps". Which one is it cnet.com?
Headline fails to mention that your email has to be given and that your request will be pending review by google.
So then, Google will have your street address tied to your email.

Data mining and click bait all in one easy step. :eyeroll:
 

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Google kind of did me a favor without me asking. If someone wants to look up my house it shows the wrong location.
 

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Just get a thousand photos of your face and plaster them all over the place. Your address will be a big blur. Thank me later.
 

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None of this really matters when realtor sites exist. Zillow, relator.com etc all have walkthroughs of inside your home and the outside shots and drone shots.

Google maps has nothing compared to those sites.

Only exception is if your home is old and hasnt been sold or bought in the last decade.

if your home is newer or bought in the last decade, not much point in doing this imho.
 

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We live in a dead end street with only 3 houses on it. All our houses are built on a steep hill, so we all have 8 - 12 foot walls in front of the house. Our porches sit about 20-30 feet above the street level. They didn't even bother to go down our street, which I'm glad they didn't. Even if they would have, I think all you would have seen is retaining walls. :LOL:

Don't know if you saw this, but someone sued Google & won when they showed him naked in his backyard,

www.foxbusiness.com

Court rules Google must pay $12,500 to man photographed naked by Street View camera: report

An Argentine court is forcing Google to pay around $12,500 to a man who was caught in the buff on a Street View camera in his own backyard, according to reports.
www.foxbusiness.com www.foxbusiness.com

An Argentine appeals court has ordered Google to pay roughly $12,500 to a man who was photographed completely naked in his backyard by a Google Street View car, despite being behind a 6-foot wall.
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Just enter your address into Google Search and you'll see how many places know a hell of a lot about you!
 

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Sunbathe naked on property and Google has to blur the photos (part of their code of conduct) 🤣.
 

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can look at neighbor property and scroll to yours, not blurred.. so there is that
 

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I searched Google for our address and only found our home on Redfin and one other real estate website. Interestingly, the Redfin entry includes a photo...of our neighbor's house, not ours.
 

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