Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images

A lot of folks accepting image uploads don't realize they need to remove the exif data from the images, as that often leaks gps coordinates if they were taken using a cell phone. With imagemagick, you can use the `-strip` flag[0] when processing the images to remove that info.

[0] https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#stri...

A responsible site will strip this on the user’s behalf, but no one should rely on that.

If I want to be lazy about it and quality doesn’t matter, I’ll take a screenshot as a quick way to strip EXIF data, the location being the key piece I want gone.

It's shame all exif info is stripped. I like to see the camera info, such as focal length, aperture and what lens too for interchangeable lens cameras.

IIRC This is how John McAfee's location was leaked when he was on the run, a Vice reporter took a selfie with him and uploaded it to the website without stripping the EXIF data

I don't grant my camera app location permissions, so the images are never tagged with gps in the first place, but I also will screen shot pictures before sending them anywhere.