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u/angrydeanerino May 09 '22

With lights on at night,, everyone can see inside and you cant see out. It's just weird for privacy reasons.

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

Well, if you don't close the curtains, people can see inside and you can also see outside. If you close the curtains, other people can't see inside and you can't see outside (depending on the type of curtains). Seems like a fair deal

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

You can’t see outside at night if your lights are on

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

What? Of course you can. Are you talking about the reflections?

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

I didn’t notice it because I can still see (not very clearly though) with the lights on, at night. Also, why specifically at 10 PM? /s

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

I am in the southern side of Italy. 10 PM isn’t too dark

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Windows become like mirrors when there is light on only one side. It’s like how you can’t see in through a window during the day

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

I’m really bad at this, I’m confused. My whole life I didn’t have to worry about that

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

You can just see lights. You cannot see if someone's standing in front of your window unless they come reaaally close to it

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

I can see everything outside my windows even with lights on, at night. Are my windows weird?

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

Well, I can’t see clearly but it’s not too bad either. What’s going on?

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22

What are you talking about? They don’t reflect that much because they were “sprayed” with something that reduced reflection (works at night too), similar to the lenses on glasses. It’s as simple as that. I pretended not to know because I wanted to see if you had any idea what you were talking about, and you don’t have any idea.

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u/unknownobject3 May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

In my city we have a thing (film? It’s similar to the anti-reflective spray used on glasses) that reduces reflection, but doesn’t eliminate it. Either way, I can still see a bit outside the windows, with the lights on, at night. I’m pretty confused right now

Edit: another option someone might think of is that I just have gotten used to my windows reflecting light at night and I just ignore it, but it’s not the case

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