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

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23 points ternera | 2 comments | 13 Mar 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I started this because similar Chrome extensions were paywalling features and I wanted a free, open source alternative. I'm new to this, so I would appreciate feedback and tips if anyone has some!
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wutwutwat ◴[14 Mar 25 04:46 UTC] No.43359655[source]▶
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...

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1. al_borland ◴[14 Mar 25 05:07 UTC] No.43359752[source]▶
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.

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2. wutwutwat ◴[15 Mar 25 02:38 UTC] No.43369435[source]▶
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.