Most mature social networks do remove this information to prevent users accidentally sharing their locations. Can someone positively say whether Lemmy is aware enough to strip extra information from photos?
Most mature social networks do remove this information to prevent users accidentally sharing their locations. Can someone positively say whether Lemmy is aware enough to strip extra information from photos?
I’ll have a look at this when I get a sec. I know the images are re-processed on upload (and cropped etc) so I assume no useful data is preserved in that process. Good to confirm tho
Looking in
ImageRepository.phpit doesn’t appear that images have their extra data stripped. Also testing it on my dev instance showed that GPS data remained in the image. Should be an easy fix since all image uploads are processed through that repository.Edit: In fact there’s already an issue open for it - https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/374
Great. Hopefully we can get that fix in soon. Better to not even have that data, there’s no point in keeping it.