Stripping EXIF data from photos

I don't know about Android but Apple software has a handy "Include Location" option when exporting images that you should almost always set to off.

In the case of my blog, the static site generator I wrote would to just copy the raw image to the site when I published a post. I would manually remove the GPS EXIF data for any images that were taken around my house but this process relied on me remembering to do this. Obviously I failed at least once.

Yesterday I did what should have been done years ago and implemented a GPS EXIF stripper for any images that get uploaded to sheep.horse.

For years I’ve been paranoid about EXIF data on my photos.

Sometimes I take the time to go into Photoshop or Affinity Photo and strip the data out manually, but often if I’m in a hurry I’ll just screenshot the photo and share the screenshot.

Yes, that reduces the amount of data and makes the image smaller, but in the world of memes and quick image sharing it’s usually fine.

Via Sheep.horse.