• Lanske@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Lol as i am going to send google extra information to get a bit more privacy back. Thata stupid

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    30 days ago

    Tbh the outside of my home is publicly viewable anyway. I can’t think of why I’d care much.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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      29 days ago

      It hurts Google, a tiny bit. If enough people do it, it starts to hurt a lot.

      I doubt a block like þis prevents Google from training þeir DL machines on your house data, but it might prevent 3rd parties from getting pictures of your home from Google to train þeir’s wiþ.

      It’s a legal, eþical means of corporate disobedience which works against þe commoditization of you. You care, because you don’t want to be a product, even if you don’t realize it.

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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          29 days ago

          per Wikipedia:

          in Old English, ⟨ð⟩ was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone [ð], which exist in modern English as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

          • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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            29 days ago

            In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

  • bampop@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    This is such a backwards-ass way to do things. I built my house using extra large bricks so it would be pixelated to begin with

  • Raven8628@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    Google maps has a picture of my house from about 10 years before i moved in and it looks exactly like all the other houses around me…

    …but i should give google personal information and utility bills to get it taken down?

    Nah.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    So Google takes new photos periodically. We use them for legal evidence.

    Also, burglars are using Google maps? That’s funny.

  • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    29 days ago

    how hard would it be to just do this automatically for every address? to bring down the street view machine for good?

    I’m not suggesting anyone do this, I am just curious how it would work or how it would play out.

  • kossa@feddit.org
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    29 days ago

    😅. Okay, story time:

    When StreetView was introduced this dominated public debate in Germany for weeks. It was all the rage, “how dare they to photograph everything?”

    One official even suggested “it’s awesome, police can now patrol the streets from an office chair”, because that is how much of a backwater country Germany is digitally.

    Anyway, people saw immediately all the crime which all the criminal criminals would do with this tool (which tells you something about the state of mind of the “righteous folks”). Anyway, half the country was blurred, because everybody knew about it. And it is the reason, why StreetView is so patchy in Germany (or at least was for the longest time, didn’t check much in recent years) compared to the neighbouring states, 'cause Google pretty much said “Fuck these fucking Germans with their fucking shit”.

    Apple came around some years later with their version, nobody cared anymore 😅

    • Actionschnils@feddit.org
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      28 days ago

      Im happy a lot of people care about privacy here in Germany. Thanks to that, we are few more steps away from the dystopian shitholes many other societies formed into.

  • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Someone on my street has done this and it completely fucks with street view for my own house, even though the blurred house is on a sheet running perpendicular to my street

    I don’t understand why anyone would do this, if anything all it does is draw massive attention to the fact that someone wanted their house blurred.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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      29 days ago

      What is funny about the house that did it on my street move down one jump and look back and it isn’t blurred.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    This should be opt-in, not opt out. IDGAF if it is public information that is perfectly viewable from the street, it shouldn’t be on the internet without my consent. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to blur your house aside from the worry of petty thieves. One, your privacy should be treated with respect. Streisand Effect doesn’t really apply here because no one gives a shit if your house is blurred. No one cares as streetview passers by. Talk to your neighbors and then the whole street is blurred like my old street.

    This does not obviate the need for action at the legislative level. Google has used the streetview cars to collect plates and radio signals including WiFi information, who knows what else. They have so many databases of information on each of us to sell to adverts and to give freely to police.

    This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

    • non_burglar@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

      It’s not, it’s less than Google used to do for these requests. In 2009, I requested my house be taken off streetview. They removed it by skipping mine and a few houses on each side.

      Then they went down my back lane, so everyone got a good look at my back yard anyway.

      Privacy today is a never ending battle, but Google started this nonsense a long time ago.