The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.”
Excellent satire.
“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.”
Excellent satire.
David Rudling • May 20, 2022 2:30 PM
The link still works for me – at the moment, but I am outside the US.
David Rudling • May 20, 2022 2:39 PM
Not only does the direct link work but I can navigate from the Home Page to News in Brief where it is right after
Plan B Unveils Emergency Team Of Brawny Men To Shake Down Impregnator For Abortion Money
and just before
Study Finds Only 2% Of Americans Can Draw Cool Flames
The page loads for me, but it completely blank.
It appears to be 100% JS with no normal text at all.
Is this what the web is going to become? No more HTML except used as a way to deliver proprietary unauditable minimised obfuscated JS code. Yuck.
SpaceLifeForm • May 21, 2022 12:08 AM
The descriptive title led me to a rabbit hole, and magically later I did pop out somewhere else in the field.
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Matthias U • May 21, 2022 8:02 PM
404 for me too,, but The Onion does have a working search button.
https://www.theonion.com/google-maps-adds-shortcuts-through-houses-of-people-goo-1848861825
Michael • May 22, 2022 10:26 PM
Reminds me of the first chapter of Snowcrash, with the Deliverator and the pool.
William • May 23, 2022 8:26 AM
For the time being, this is being crowd-sourced with the best targets self-identifying.
https://www.cultofmac.com/764740/apple-maps-hides-tim-cook-house/
Ted • May 23, 2022 2:53 PM
@William
Re: Hiding your home on Apple and Google maps
That’s a very safety-conscious feature. Based on the URL I thought it might have been an accommodation only afforded to the elite or the connected.
It’s good to know that anyone could file a request to have their home blurred.
SpaceLifeForm • May 23, 2022 5:23 PM
@ William, Ted
Absense of signal, is signal.
If one were to search via geolocation, and the results are blurred, then that is information.
Lily Zhang • May 24, 2022 1:53 AM
In modern life we obviously have no privacy at all, not even the furniture at home.
The page loads for me, but it completely blank.
Rookie • June 30, 2022 4:32 AM
What a great article, I can’t wait to try it.
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jdgalt1 • May 20, 2022 2:20 PM
Link is 404. And theonion’s home page doesn’t show this article. I think somebody has made it disappear. Your guess at blame is as good as mine.