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I recently realized that I’ve been using some tool a lot: a small web app I built myself to remove EXIF data from images.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Sorry for only being able to give very critical feedback, but i think thats just about the worst way imaginable to remove exif data. The idea with doing that is that you dont want to share the data, so uploading the original file to some random untrusted webserver is completeley contradictory. There are plenty of simple, small, fully local FOSS applications that do this on every OS out there.

For android there is a share plugin that removes exif data while you share images https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif

On linux there are also tools that come with most distros.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

yea thanks, totally get it, just shared what i built. idk if it was possible to make the deletion locally in the browser, without making an API func (which is fairly simple yet still remotely used).

also, i deployed it on vercel and these mfs are sketchy and may be logging stuff, so it definitely isn't good OPSEC.

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

idk if it was possible to make the deletion locally in the browser

It's definitely possible. It's just not something built-in browser APIs provide.

Personally, the only project I'm familiar with is exiftool, which is written in Perl. After a quick search I found this - https://github.com/lucasgelfond/exiftool-web.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 2 points 59 minutes ago

yea thanks, i'll rebuild the thing in a more ethical way for sure

Thanks for sharing anyway :) As long as you learn something from making it, any project has value imo, even if its not used in the end.