Let me just check with Sundar Pichai, see what he has to say about that. :rolleyes:
It was a few years ago, and I don’t know - I wasn’t involved.
Maybe you could say what you mean?
My neighbor blurred his garage out. Why? Because the garage door happened to be up at the time the Google car came down the street. In his garage is a rather impressive collection of vintage silver-faced audio amplifiers and receivers from the 1970s and early 80s - nearly 60 of them. They were on view on Google Earth/Maps. Better safe than sorry.
I did already. Try rereading it, it was simple enough.
“Let me just check with Sundar Pichai, see what he has to say about that.”
So, what did he have to say about that? Did you call him? email? Or is this some snark that I am supposed to know who he is, and thus know what he’d say about the subject? Note that his Wiki page does say is the CEO of a company that owns Google, but there’s no quotes from him about Google earth. Do you have a quote from him? If so, why not just post it, instead of snark?
You post makes no sense at all.
Are you serious? I feel like I am chatting with someone on the spectrum. If so, I’m sorry. I was being mildly snarky with a joke like I could talk to the CEO of Google about why they do what they do. I thought what I first posted that you questioned was pretty obvious, but apparently not so.
So have a good night.
Note also that you can’t go down that side road; it’s probably a private community of some sort that doesn’t want to be findable on Google Maps and they just couldn’t afford to put up a gate system. The guy stuck at the corner wanted some measure of privacy so he asked to have his house blurred out.
Not in all countries, though. In Germany there were so many blur requests that Google basically gave up on that country and, for the most part, Switzerland and Austria too. They say it’d for privacy but then it seems to me if they don’t want me seeing their country on a computer then I don’t feel welcome to visit in person either.
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I know a guy who is a private investigator with many cars he uses. He blurs his property so no one can see that. I don’t know if that’s paranoid or smart, but he can ask for it and get it.
Lots of things that are perfectly legal are nevertheless shitty things to do. If a homeowner doesn’t want their house visible on Google street view, it’s only fair for Google to address their concerns. It buys Google some goodwill, keeps the owner happy, and there’s very little downside.
I do think the permanent nature of the blurring is a little weird. What if the house is sold and the next owner really wants it to be visible?
It fosters goodwill with the person (and the public in general) who’s property they are using, without permission, to make money.
The fact that this might backfire for the requester is irrelevant.
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I don’t know. How many people, if they see a blurred house, are actually going to go through the trouble of driving there in person to see what’s going on? I certainly wouldn’t, unless I had specific and personal reason to be suspicious about that house.
Same car, but no camper.
Is it permanent in that future images are also blurred? Streetview cars will go over the same road multiple times in different years. I’ve seen some places that have as many as a couple dozen images from the same spot. So does anyone wanting to blur their house have to give repeated requests or do they blur them in future images automatically? If the latter, then the new owner just has to wait for the next visit of the car. Otherwise, maybe they can cancel the request for future images.
I think the manufacturer is BigFoot Pigments. They also make Loch Ness Fuzzy Film.
Better plan – blur the house next door to your house.
Nefarious!
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