Read the camera, date and GPS data hidden in a JPEG, then strip it out without touching the picture.
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The file is read inside your browser. It is never uploaded anywhere, which matters given what EXIF can contain.
The file is read locally, which matters more here than in most tools: EXIF is exactly the kind of data you would not want to hand to a website in order to find out what it says.
Camera, lens, exposure, dates, software and, if it is present, the GPS position where the shutter was pressed. Location gets its own warning because it is the one that causes real harm.
Every metadata segment is removed and the compressed image data is copied through untouched, so you get the same picture in a smaller file with nothing personal left in it.
A block of information the camera writes into the image file alongside the picture: which camera and lens, the exposure settings, the date and time, sometimes the software that edited it, and often the GPS coordinates. It is invisible when you look at the photo and travels with the file everywhere it goes.
Because a photo taken at home carries your home address, accurate to a few metres, in a field nobody looks at. Photos of children, of a car, of anything at a private address all carry it. Social networks usually strip it on upload, but a file sent by email, chat or cloud link keeps everything.
No, and that is the reason this tool strips bytes rather than re-saving the image. The metadata segments are dropped and the compressed image data is copied across unchanged, so there is no second round of JPEG compression and no visible difference at all.
Because the metadata was taking up space. A camera JPEG often carries several kilobytes of EXIF plus an embedded thumbnail, and both are gone. The picture data is identical in size because it is the same bytes.
EXIF as such is a JPEG and TIFF convention. PNG and WebP store metadata in different container structures, and HEIC in another again. JPEG is where the overwhelming majority of camera and phone photos with EXIF actually live.
Usually yes, because most tools redraw the image and metadata is not carried across. That includes our own image resizer and converter. It is a side effect though, not a guarantee, so if removing metadata is the actual goal, do it deliberately and check the result.
Not from the downloaded file: those bytes are simply not in it. Your original still has everything, and so does any copy you already shared, which is the part people forget.
No. It is read as bytes inside your browser and never sent anywhere. Given that the tool exists to show you private data hidden in your files, doing it any other way would defeat the point.
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