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The Haunted House – Privacy on Google Street View

16 points| b0b10101 | 5 years ago |harpers.org

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michaericalribo|5 years ago

The strangest part to me is that the one block is stuck 10 years behind the rest of the neighborhood, in terms of recency of the photo, even though the house in question doesn’t exist at the later time—it wouldn’t appear, and wouldn’t need blurring.

It’s as though Google Maps is inadvertently preserving the house’s horrific legacy by refusing to forget, and refusing to let it disappear.

ibejoeb|5 years ago

Is this really how Harper's distributes its content digitally?

blakesterz|5 years ago

It's an "Annotation" which I guess is different than normal? https://harpers.org/sections/annotation/

From their page:

Annotation: A closer look into the meanings and histories of everyday documents, diagrams, maps, and images.

tensor|5 years ago

I don't even see anything on the page. I'm guessing this is their anti-adblock tactic? If so I'm fine not viewing their content.

codazoda|5 years ago

I wondered that too. Looks like a PDF embedded in the page. Maybe they still make some physical magazine and the web content is secondary.