Sort of like "huge pile of empty high end electronics boxes on curb on trash (recycle) day after holidays" is also a signal.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, though.
This is mostly FUD though. Dutch police did an experiment where cops using traditional methods were 3 times (iirc) more effective at spotting vacationers than ones using the internet. It's much more important to secure your home than it is to not post to social media.
Similarly, if you have a cleaner or contractor coming by, you probably will defer it until you’re back.
It just scraped social media for posts about people going on vacation and when they'd be back.
But what can be done? Spread the disposal over many months? The signal is still there.
Cart your (sensitive) recylcing to a recycling center yourself, rather than relying on exposed curbside pickup.
> Spread the disposal over many months? The signal is still there.
That probably works too, if you have a bin and the signal is stuff extending beyond the bin signalling to drive-by opportunists; by spreading it out over time, you can keep the stuff you don't want to expose in (and at the bottom of) the bin, which exposes you to people who dig through the bin for intel, but that's a whole lot more active search.
My question was more about what can be done by an American citizen (as I assumed it was the case here) since the cliché is that the US doesn't do recycling.