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darrylb42today at 5:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.


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schifferntoday at 5:32 PM

I'm confused. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear, right?

Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a mobile pole camera (or twelve) outside his house 24/7. Rest easy, it's all being done for his own safety!

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NewJazztoday at 5:55 PM

now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious

Mysterious? Yes. Suspicious? I wouldn't think that. Plenty of houses in my neighborhood are blurred. I don't think much about it. And yes, I can just walk over and look. But I'm their neighbor. Not someone megameters away...

frollogastontoday at 6:07 PM

You only know what the front of the house looks like.

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