How To Get More Privacy In Montana

It's basically impossible these days to not have some sort of digital fingerprint on the internet.

Even if you have never ever used a computer or a smartphone, information about you is out there, especially when it comes to your house.

The Free Online Privacy Trick Most Montanans Don’t Know

Protecting your privacy on the internet has become a big-time industry, with services such as VPNs that hide your location while being online.

Most of the ways to keep your information safe while online requires you to pay either an upfront cost or a monthly subscription fee.

However, experts say there is one thing you can do that is free that might be the best thing to prevent you, your family, and your home from being the victim of a crime.

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How Blurring Your Home Online Could Protect Your Family

Google Maps can be a fun website to waste some time on, putting in coordinates and looking at the pictures, but then you realize your house in Montana is on there too, so how do you get it removed?

Well, you can't remove it completely, but you can blur it, and here's how to do it.

  1. Find your home on Google Maps
  2. Click the 3 Dots by your address
  3. Click "Report A Problem"

From that point, Google will guide you through the steps to blur your home, which should help provide you and your family with some peace of mind.

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