Google on Thursday announced that it has rolled out its Street View feature to Germany’s 20 largest cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich.

Google also said it will also bring its advanced blurring techniques to all regions where Street View is available.

Google first announced plans to extend Street View in Germany in August. At the time, the search engine giant gave residents until September 15 to opt out of having their homes displayed on the service; the homes of those who chose not to be included would be blurred (pictured). German regulators expressed concern that that would not give people enough time to opt out, but Google said those who missed the deadline could ask to have their homes blurred via the “Report a problem” tool after they went live.

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About 240,000 people opted out of having their homes displayed via Street View in Germany, Google revealed in October.

Google said Friday that it has implemented a new blurring process that “completely blocks out a house, car or person, but no longer cuts out all the surrounding scenery as well, such as a nearby street sign or trees.”

“This enables us to respect requests for removal without blacking out the entire area,” Andreas Tuerk, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.

The first use of this technology went live earlier this month in Oberstaufen, Germany. Going forward, however, Google will be “rolling this out everywhere Street View is available for all new removal requests,” Tuerk wrote.

In September, privacy concerns prompted regulators in the Czech Republic to ban Google from extending Street View beyond Prague.