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Why don't browsers do this? Firefox should implement this (warn about geolocation and suggest either remove it or fake it).

ourcat 7y ago
A browser extension could do this. (Maybe one already does?)
- mumblemumble 7y ago
  I'm guessing most of these sorts of photos are posted directly from a smartphone, though, these days. So fancy unix commands or browser extensions would help protect statistically zero people. Apple, though, with privacy ostensibly being their thing, would be pretty on-brand to set up an iOS capability for getting to see the original image files, with all apps you don't explicitly authorize instead getting to see degraded-resolution images with the exif data scrubbed. Android could do it, too, but it seems less likely to happen since all that extra information is valuable marketing and tracking signal.
  - lonelappde 7y ago
    Surely this should be a camera feature or image editing plugin (which Android already supports today). The swipe against Android is absurd, since Google could easily slurp that information before letting you edit it (as the do with your browsing activity) to prevent others from accessing that information, if they wanted to (which they don't).
    - matt-attack 7y ago
      I don’t want that feature in my camera since the geo data is phenomenal for organizing and search. I want the metadata in my copy just not in the copy I upload.
      - saagarjha 7y ago
        I think it would be great if iOS stripped this out when you shared an image. Edit: I had a vague memory of this being in iOS 13, so I looked for it and there’s an option to strip location data when you share an image now.
        matt-attack 7y ago
        Where is that in settings?
        saagarjha 7y ago
        It's not in settings, it's an option that appears when you try to share an image.
mschuster91 7y ago
If I were to use a website and a browser were to manipulate the data without this being clearly announced, I'd be pissed beyond belief. Besides, this also introduces a security vulnerability - image metadata parsers are complex and there are regularly bugs found in them.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  That argument could be used to prove that Firefox should have no features, and it's rebutting something not stated in the parent comment.
ghaff 7y ago
There isn't a clear "right" answer to what metadata should be stored and displayed. And, increasingly, metadata doesn't even need to be explicit, e.g. with facial recognition. So, generally, having software make decisions on its own about how to handle some aspect of metadata seems like a poor choice.
skybrian 7y ago
It's on the publishing side, so it seems like photo apps (Google Photos, Apple Photos) and publishing apps (WordPress) would be a better place to manage this?
- RexM 7y ago
  I think he means warning users that a picture contains this information before uploading it somewhere.
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ourcat 7y ago

A browser extension could do this. (Maybe one already does?)

mumblemumble 7y ago
I'm guessing most of these sorts of photos are posted directly from a smartphone, though, these days. So fancy unix commands or browser extensions would help protect statistically zero people. Apple, though, with privacy ostensibly being their thing, would be pretty on-brand to set up an iOS capability for getting to see the original image files, with all apps you don't explicitly authorize instead getting to see degraded-resolution images with the exif data scrubbed. Android could do it, too, but it seems less likely to happen since all that extra information is valuable marketing and tracking signal.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  Surely this should be a camera feature or image editing plugin (which Android already supports today). The swipe against Android is absurd, since Google could easily slurp that information before letting you edit it (as the do with your browsing activity) to prevent others from accessing that information, if they wanted to (which they don't).
  - matt-attack 7y ago
    I don’t want that feature in my camera since the geo data is phenomenal for organizing and search. I want the metadata in my copy just not in the copy I upload.
    - saagarjha 7y ago
      I think it would be great if iOS stripped this out when you shared an image. Edit: I had a vague memory of this being in iOS 13, so I looked for it and there’s an option to strip location data when you share an image now.
      - matt-attack 7y ago
        Where is that in settings?
        saagarjha 7y ago
        It's not in settings, it's an option that appears when you try to share an image.

mschuster91 7y ago

If I were to use a website and a browser were to manipulate the data without this being clearly announced, I'd be pissed beyond belief. Besides, this also introduces a security vulnerability - image metadata parsers are complex and there are regularly bugs found in them.

lonelappde 7y ago
That argument could be used to prove that Firefox should have no features, and it's rebutting something not stated in the parent comment.

ghaff 7y ago

There isn't a clear "right" answer to what metadata should be stored and displayed. And, increasingly, metadata doesn't even need to be explicit, e.g. with facial recognition. So, generally, having software make decisions on its own about how to handle some aspect of metadata seems like a poor choice.

skybrian 7y ago

It's on the publishing side, so it seems like photo apps (Google Photos, Apple Photos) and publishing apps (WordPress) would be a better place to manage this?

RexM 7y ago
I think he means warning users that a picture contains this information before uploading it somewhere.

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