How to Blur Your House in Google Maps
Blurring your home, a face or a license plate in Google Maps is easy — just keep in mind it’s permanent. Here’s how to do it. 0:00 Intro 0:15 How To access the blur function 0:50 Request Blurring Options 1:30 Google’s Image Acceptance and Privacy Policies 1:42 Report Poor Image Quality to Google Read the CNET…
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Louisa Buchholz
June 29, 2023 at 8:01 am
GREAT EQUIPMENT????????
Kevin Tan
June 29, 2023 at 8:04 am
Most likely will attract more attention to your house.
The CunninLynguist
June 29, 2023 at 8:27 am
streisand effect
YDGFX
June 29, 2023 at 9:03 am
No it won’t.
James Is Bored
June 29, 2023 at 11:05 am
@YDGFXexplain how it wont.
anime is a mistake
June 29, 2023 at 11:34 am
Ikr! It just interest me more like what are they hiding
venom5809
June 29, 2023 at 5:18 pm
100% it will draw way more attention to your house.
Salim
June 29, 2023 at 8:07 am
Great options to have for sure????
Dan Ri
June 29, 2023 at 8:07 am
Japanese have a saying, the nail that sticks out get hammered
The Boy
June 29, 2023 at 8:11 am
Isn’t it better to hide a leaf amongst a forest? On top of that not every house is going to be blurred nor is every license plate so people can still find you through other people. I guess this would work good enough for faces though
nathan4567
June 29, 2023 at 8:45 am
you can hire security firms that will actually go to every mapping company and request blurring of your home( some even include overhead blurring)
Momi Erica
July 2, 2023 at 2:13 am
????pp
iblackfeathers
June 29, 2023 at 8:43 am
that’s not his real voice, but an a.i. voice.
Russell C
June 29, 2023 at 8:55 am
But your home, plate and face as you walk down the street are all free and viewed by the public. Driving to work, maybe 50 cars can see my plate, each way. Probably a few hundred drive by my house every day and can see it. Not sure I understand the paranoia. ????????♂️
Motown1966
June 29, 2023 at 9:50 am
This is fine & dandy for the current home owner. What about future ones tho? Shouldn’t they have the right to unblurr the home once it’s sold? I can see there will be some upset future home owners of blurred-out houses.
Alfredo
June 29, 2023 at 6:30 pm
It’ll probably resets once they post an updated street view image.
Repo Recon
June 30, 2023 at 2:35 am
Zillow. Realtor. When they put it up for sale.
toaster
June 30, 2023 at 5:54 am
@Alfredo Actually, when a house is blurred, the frames in which the blurred house can be seen are never updated, so blurring your house also prevents a large section of the street to not get updated.
Jun De Vera
June 29, 2023 at 9:59 am
So you have to share your personal details just so Google can blur your home? In the first place, Google has no right sharing people’s homes in their maps. It’s agains anyone’s privacy. But since it’s an American company, they get away with it.
Chris Teasdale
June 29, 2023 at 10:35 am
All the companies and services be it food delivery, packages, Uber, etc etc. Blurring your house in Google Maps might make it harder for them to find your home. Not sure it’s really worth it.
Victor S.
June 29, 2023 at 10:52 am
Useful. Cnet is cool. Luck Guys.
Yawe 2born
June 29, 2023 at 10:59 am
???? Surprisingly, from thousands of kms I was able to identify some individuals from my home village. It was terrible indeed.
dhirender sahani
June 29, 2023 at 11:24 am
Its great ????
venom5809
June 29, 2023 at 11:49 am
Damn, thought I was going to be able to just blur out my whole neighborhood and mess with my friends and blur out their houses too. LOL
ItzEagleT
June 29, 2023 at 12:06 pm
Wow ????
ACMC
June 29, 2023 at 3:38 pm
People shouldn’t have the right the blur their home at all. It’s viewable from a public space. I’d like anyone to provide me of an example where blurring a home protects someone’s privacy. If someone’s looking at your house on street view they already have your address.
Mohamed Bah
June 29, 2023 at 6:03 pm
The title is a bit misleading since you can’t do it yourself rather you are requesting for it to be done. I think it should read as ‘How to request a blurring of your house in Google Maps’. ????
texasaltima2002
June 29, 2023 at 9:00 pm
I guess I got lucky when it came to ensuring my home’s privacy. I did this back when street view first came out. Except back them, google would completely remove your home and any images that had the smallest part of your property. To this day if you try to street view my house it takes you about five homes down the block. Because of my request, about 15 homes are not available at all on street view. BTW- google means it when they say this is a lifetime change. To this day, they still update my street but skip the same houses that it removed over 15 years ago since my request to remove my house. I bet real estate agents in my area hate me. Cause this value tool is ot available for the houses surrounding mine.
Joshua1:9
June 29, 2023 at 9:39 pm
I see why people would do this but people who do it on multifamily units or apartments are menaces to society
alicia wang
June 29, 2023 at 11:03 pm
Great tips!
Jason
June 30, 2023 at 3:51 am
I don’t know. Blurring your house my make it even more suspicious and people want to know why it’s blurred out.
CK Gaming Channel
June 30, 2023 at 4:14 am
Sigh…. should we even have to do this? Talk about wasting time. Why make this tech in the first place?
CK Gaming Channel
June 30, 2023 at 4:18 am
The technology is redundant, because it’s adding a step no one is aware of. No one should even have to do this at all.
Bruce Lee
June 30, 2023 at 7:06 pm
Just because you provide an address, doesn’t mean you own that address. Trolls are going to have a field day.
Macky J
June 30, 2023 at 7:37 pm
This is pointless i understand the faces but everything else is taken from a public street.