I wanted to ask if there’s an option for obscuring geoprivacy/time/date by default? I’ve read through some of the topics and it seems that the majority of the concerns are about the species being observed, for very valid reasons. However, for users like me who live in countries with security concer…

Thanks, so basically it’s not possible according to staff: “Because iNat is fundamentally about sharing information , it’s not possible to set a default geoprivacy to obscured or private. It needs to be done on an observation-by-observation basis, via batch editing on upload in the web uploader, or v…

Default Obscure Account Settings?—iNaturalist User Safety

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pisum August 2, 2021, 3:50am 5

see:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/changing-default-geoprivacy/14207/3

also:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automate-geoprivacy-with-user-defined-geofences/700
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/option-to-hide-time-show-just-the-date/4469

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Topic		Replies	Views
Changing default geoprivacy General	23	3079	October 22, 2020
Option to hide time (show just the date) Feature Requests otherprivacy	19	2421	November 22, 2022
Opt-in obscure all observations at varying levels as a privacy setting General	4	616	January 17, 2021
Allow observers to unobscure dates for their manually obscured observations Feature Requests	8	1102	October 14, 2021
Lightly obscure all records on iNaturalist Feature Requests geoprivacy	48	5418	October 25, 2019

Default Obscure Account Settings?—iNaturalist User Safety

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