If you’re familiar with Google Maps, you’ve probably used Street View — the immersive feature that lets you see what locations look like from a first-person perspective. Using footage from Google’s Street View cars and volunteer contributors, Google Maps’ Street View has captured imagery for more than 10 million miles across our planet.
Street View is useful if you want to see the exterior of a restaurant or bar before you visit, or for identifying a unit in a building that you’ve never been to. If you’re driving to an unfamiliar home, you can check out whether you’ve got the right place using Street View when you arrive.
Unfortunately, for all its benefits, Street View can also be used as a tool for stalkers and criminals. It gives anyone a free ticket to examine parts of your home without actually being there in person.Â
Sure, someone could simply walk or drive by your home and scope out where you live, but Google Maps lets them do it easily — from their couch. Anyone with a phone or computer can do it.
Fortunately, there’s a simple way to blur your home on Google Maps and help prevent others from seeing too many details of where you live. Here’s how to do it.
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How to blur your home on Google Maps
You’ll need to do this on your computer — the blurring feature isn’t available in the Google Maps application on iOS or Android. It is accessible through the web browser on your mobile device, but it’s rather difficult to use, so your best choice is a trusted web browser on your Mac or PC instead.
Watch this: How to Blur Your Home or an Object in Google Maps
At maps.google.com, enter your home address in the search bar at the top-right, hit return, then click the photo of your home that appears.
Next, you’ll see the Street…
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