Jonathan Lamothe

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Jonathan Lamothe

10 months ago

Jonathan Lamothe
10 months ago

!Friendica Support

So, it's come to my attention that when I upload a photo to Friendica, the exif data is not automatically stripped out of it, as had been my assumption. Is there some setting that I can change to correct this behaviour? Looks like I've been broadcasting my address with nearly every photo I've posted.

I can't put the genie back in the bottle, but I can at least stop broadcasting it.

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Shelenn Ayres

10 months ago •

@Jonathan Lamothe go to your settings and you can find a way to turn that off

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Jonathan Lamothe

10 months ago

@Shelenn Ayres I've looked. The closest I can find is:
Settings ➡️ Additional Features ➡️ General Features ➡️ Photo Location
(which is unchecked)
Metadata is still not being stripped.

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Shelenn Ayres

10 months ago •

@Jonathan Lamothe wonder if it's a bug then

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Jonathan Lamothe

10 months ago

@Andreas Kilgus @Shelenn Ayres That's the same impression I get, but it's the closest thing I could find. It does say that the data is normally stripped, though (in the English version, at least).

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10 months ago •

you could strip it out before upload. Depends on your camera.

That said … now I have to check my own photos …

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lucas

10 months ago •

I've often wondered if there's some kind of "photo washing" app/program that exists to prevent these kinds of accidents before a photo leaves your device.

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sen

10 months ago •

@tastytea Oof! Seems the feature request has been stuck since late 2019: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/7653

Add feature to strip EXIF data from photos · Issue #7653 · friendica/friendica

This is a feature request. Please add an option to strip all or some selected EXIF data from photos uploaded, this option should be a user setting with a default setting to strip all EXIF data when...

^GitHub

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