Strip EXIF Data Out of Your Image Files Before Posting

Posted by surprisetalk on Monday April 14, 2025 @07:09PM
from the sheep.horse dept.

https://sheep.horse/2025/4/you_should_be_stripping_exif_data_out_of_your_imag.html

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Re:Strip EXIF Data Out of Your Image Files Before Posting by nofalsescotsman on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:07PM (#43687657)

exiv2 is a fantastic command line tool to do this. Lightening fast.

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Re:Strip EXIF Data Out of Your Image Files Before Posting by kristianp on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @06:54AM (#43691132)

Can you keep the lens and camera info, while stripping the location data? It can be interesting to see the focal length and aperture, etc used if you're into photography.

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Re:Strip EXIF Data Out of Your Image Files Before Posting by AndrewStephens on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @10:02AM (#43692819)

This was my blog post. I didn't explain it very very but I agree that you do not want to completely strip out the useful EXIF data. In particular, the colorspace values are used by the browser to show photos in a more "correct" way on your screen.

My blogging software only strips the GPS EXIF data. The code is here:

https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite/blob/dev/gensite...

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