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Just wanted to point out that legally nothing is stopping Google from releasing Street View in Germany as far as I know. Maybe they will do so soon, considering that Apple Look Around is available for most of Germany


https://support.google.com/maps/thread/165997335/when-will-g...


Street View is also available in Germany as far as I can tell.


Only in the initial cities in which they started doing it before the backlash got so large that they abandoned it.

A few months later, when Microsoft or whoever did their take on it, nobody cared anymore because it wasn't about principles.


It was more of a media campaign, ad brokers trying to kneecap that other ad broker. Microsoft wasn't in the ad business back in the day, so no threat to media businesses.


Street view for Google Mars. I think the atmosphere is too thin for those photo-taking cars to run very far. That and the lack of any streets on Mars.

At least in the unclassified imagery that has been made public... (cue eerie music)




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