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.
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.
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.
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.
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.yea thanks, i’ll rebuild the thing in a more ethical way for sure
Also, I require an XMP editor, because my hard-to-see audience needs
<Image Description>for substituting textual information in liue of attachment failures.This is why I’m currently using Image Toolbox until I can customize it further. Exif&XMP can be used without compromising privacy.
