• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    10 days ago

    Why would it? Ideally signal has no clue what’s being transmitted on its network. It doesn’t know if those bytes are a gif, a PDF, an mp4, flat pack, apk, anything.

    • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      10 days ago

      Why would it?

      Because it’s very reasonable to expect photos and videos to both be handled in the same way.

    • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
      10·
      10 days ago

      Because stripping files metadata is an expected features for a messaging client. Not for the network like you described but for the client.

    • eco_gameEnglish
      8·
      10 days ago

      I would also heavily assume, that it happens client side before sending the content to Signal servers.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      The app knows, they could do the stripping locally before sending, like they already do for video transcoding.