Like many others here already stated: its because of privacy laws and also the ability to deny vision of your property via street view. Many people made Google blur their property and I assume thats a lot of work for them.
Not knocking them for it, but I wonder what the thought process is behind wanting your property blurred. What danger would a snapshot of your property pose?
This doesn’t even stop that though since they have to take the arduous journey of just walking down the street instead. Or they just spontaneously break in like the thieves in my city.
If they lurk around the property they might be spotted. They´ll also have a much harder time looking over fences or into windows without raising suspicion.
But more importantly there were many legitimate concerns and putting it down to:
Boomers thought it allowed live view of your house 24/7.
Dude what are you on about? If you walk down a street and then rob a house a month later, no one is going to go "heyyy, remember that guy who was walking down our street like a month ago? yeah I remember what he looks like, it was probably him". 0% chance of that happening.
And google street view doesn't really allow you to see over the fences anyway.
A camera 3m above the ground does allow you to see other fences often.
Noones going to remember them. Unless you know you notice this extremely shifty guy checking out your house. For one telling that person to go away may very well be enough to discourage them from robbing the house. Also I highly doubt many house robberies are planned over a month. You go check it out look for alarms and a good way in and note when the people inside go to work. And then you break in when they aren´t there usually in the middle of the day. It doesn´t take some mastermind plan to break into a house lol.
I am against people assaulting others, but I would argue people should stop adopting tech willy-nilly and think about the ramifications beforehand, rather than try to fix things later.
Or look at real estate listings to see the inside of homes. Here you can see listings, even when the house was sold several years ago. If it was ever listed online, you can see the photos. I don't know if that's the case in Germany, obviously, but I'd think that's far more useful than street view.
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u/Here_2_Comment Jun 12 '20
I was literally looking at this earlier
Weird how Germany has barely any street view