I did this a year ago, and as @hellfire103@lemmy.ca & @privacydingus@lemmy.ml mentioned: "if I blurred it, it would stick out" or "one blurred house on a street of unblurred houses probably creates more intrigue". However, others may have seen my blurred house and applied the same level of privacy. Now the map has four blurred houses, again possibly because I did it first. “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ ”
P.S. The amount of laughs I get from companies that buy blurred images from Google is worth the disturbance of having a blur. Spam emails & spam postal mail arrive with blur images that they purchased from Google. Also, so many online sites like Zillow, Trulia, etc, all pull from Google and may have a little more difficulty profiting from this blur data. While I have “nothing to hide”, maybe someone out there does need to hide but is afraid of just being the only house that has been blurred. The more people do this, the more it might help those who really need privacy versus those who just want Google and capitalistic monopolies to leave them alone.
@Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com The takeaway here is not "don't use email at all." You can employ OpenPGP, and encrypt your emails. Also, host your own keys. Perhaps don’t allow a single corporation to have your private key and access to your encrypted messages simultaneously.