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bulksalty t1_jac83ik wrote

Google owns the company that provides those and google knows a lot about you (you may have a google account or from their cookies tracking your browser id). Google checks it's information about whether you're likely to be a real person and if it thinks it's very likely does nothing.

When it's not sure you get to identify something they need to train their AI or mark on google maps, like vehicles traffic control devices, fire hydrants, hills etc.

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TheDefected t1_jachpvk wrote

There was an older one you don't see anymore where they showed you blurred text, that was from character recognition from scans of old newspapers that google was adding into their database and couldn't make out.

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CliffExcellent123 t1_jacasxk wrote

>When it's not sure you get to identify something they need to train
their AI or mark on google maps, like vehicles traffic control devices,
fire hydrants, hills etc.

Which is why those tend to show up more when you're in Incognito mode or using a VPN.

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