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You can have Google blur your house on Street View if you are so inclined. No idea in what kind of insurance profile bucket that will shunt you, but it's something to consider for the privacy conscious among us.

Click on 'report a problem' in Street View and centre the viewer you will see on your house, select 'my home' from the options, and add the address for good measure in the comment area.

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Do your neighbor's houses too. Otherwise If I'm on Street View, I'm going to wonder what's special about that one house.

There's far too many blurred houses on Google Maps in Germany, often because a single tenant opted-out.

It's the 21st century equivalent of hiding under the blanket to protect from the evil spirits.

A portion of the population works in fields like psych where there is standard advice to use unlisted phone numbers to deter stalkers. Given 10 tenants, it is likely one has a good reason to make it harder to picture where they live.

No, it’s the 21st century reality of needing to protect yourself from insurance companies looking to spy on your house to set your insurance rates.

Literally hiding under a blanket: the day blurring out houses becomes widespread, they will just sent a human to look at your house.

That’s totally fine. They’ve been able to do that for 200 years and it hasn’t proved worth the cost.

Or use a data provider that doesn't allow opt-out and has no publicly available interface.

Good. That imposes a cost on whoever wants to look at someone's house and provides a disincentive to do it without a good reason.

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