Zero EXIF - Remove Metadata from Images
zero-exif.vercel.app
A simple utility to remove EXIF metadata from your images, right in your browser.

I recently realized that I’ve been using some tool a lot: a small web app I built myself to remove EXIF data from images.

  • unexposedhazard
    12·
    3 months ago

    Sorry for only being able to give very critical feedback, but i think thats just about the worst way imaginable to remove exif data. The idea with doing that is that you dont want to share the data, so uploading the original file to some random untrusted webserver is completeley contradictory. There are plenty of simple, small, fully local FOSS applications that do this on every OS out there.

    For android there is a share plugin that removes exif data while you share images https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif

    On linux there are also tools that come with most distros.

    • paulbg@programming.devOP
      3·
      3 months ago

      yea thanks, totally get it, just shared what i built. idk if it was possible to make the deletion locally in the browser, without making an API func (which is fairly simple yet still remotely used).

      also, i deployed it on vercel and these mfs are sketchy and may be logging stuff, so it definitely isn’t good OPSEC.

      • unexposedhazard
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thanks for sharing anyway :) As long as you learn something from making it, any project has value imo, even if its not used in the end.

      • Dumhuvud@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        idk if it was possible to make the deletion locally in the browser

        It’s definitely possible. It’s just not something built-in browser APIs provide.

        Personally, the only project I’m familiar with is exiftool, which is written in Perl. After a quick search I found this - https://github.com/lucasgelfond/exiftool-web.