The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.”
Excellent satire.
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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.
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal
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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.