Blur your house on Google Maps Street View for privacy

[Junger]

I usually leave my garage open in the summer for my boys to run in and out of and the Google car snapped a picture of stuff in my garage that I don't really want people knowing about. No...not a whiskey still or anything, just my boat and rods/reels and tackle. I noticed another house down the street had their Google Map view blurred so I found this and it was easy to do. So now my house, garage, and car driveway are blurred. Here's how to do it.

 

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view

 

 

[gim]

Google maps aren't very up to date when I look at my house/neighborhood.

 

At my last house, I had lived there for years and it showed an older, smaller house that was there 7 years prior.

 

I just checked my current house and it shows a photo from over a year ago when it was still for sale.

[MN Fisher]

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

I just checked my current house and it shows a photo from over a year ago when it was still for sale.

Mine shows the F-9 in the parking slot and the truck out front...so last summer sometime.

[J Francho]

That will suck if you ever sell. It is very difficult to unblur it if you don't want it blurred 

[Junger]

20 minutes ago, J Francho said:

That will suck if you ever sell. It is very difficult to unblur it if you don't want it blurred 

 

It's permanent. If I ever sell, I'll have it listed through MLS and they'll have their own pictures.

[Way north bass guy]

Don’t matter to me. Pretty sure it’ll be a LONG time before any google map street view is recorded anywhere near my dead end, dirt road way out in the boonies house ?. 

[Bird]

I got something that will blur the vision of any unwanted guests ?

 

On a serious note, all the Google shots of my house is roof, not on an angle where you can see in the garage.

[Log Catcher]

My garage door is open in the last picture they took of my house. With the car parked in front of it all you can see is a little bit of my riding mower. They did blur the license plates on our vehicles.

[N Florida Mike]

I’m not worried about it. Like Bird said, it would be their bad if someone ever tried breaking in our house.

Not that we have much anyway that anyone would want…

[HenryPF]

Blur? No way! I'm actually in walking to my old chevy K5 blazer when the first time googly maps car was passing - they blur you out mostly. Now I am actually in my company parking lot as the car passed by smoking a cigarette the ONE time I had one in like 15 years. Figures.

[12poundbass]

 

[Woody B]

The google maps picture of my house is from 2016.   

[Darth-Baiter]

oh no.  that was my yoga day.  i should really pull up my tights..  and close the garage door to my yoga studio.  

[Cbump]

15000 people a day drive by my house in real life, I don’t care if a picture of It is blurred. 
 

Same reason I don’t blur out license plates in photos. I don’t even know what the point of that is.