The browser itself should intercept any photo you try to upload to the web and ask you if you want to remove the metadata before a single byte is transferred.
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The browser itself should intercept any photo you try to upload to the web and ask you if you want to remove the metadata before a single byte is transferred.
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@forteller Short answer - no. File picker dialog normally returns just a path to the selected file (or a list of paths) and then it is up to the calling program what to do with those paths.
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@older @forteller Long answer - yes. It could to this by passing the file URL to a stripper tool and returning the stripped results path to the calling program
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@webhat Right? The OS decides what it opens when you click on an upload button in the browser. So it could open a program that shows you the files, then strips the metadata from the selected files, saves the new, stripped files temporarily, and then gives the path to the new temp files to the browser, right? @pilum @older
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@webhat @older @forteller longer answer: no, because the OS and file selection dialog has no idea about what the app is going to do with the file, and you don't want a photo editing app to get all the metadata stripped from a file when opening a photo
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@webhat @older @forteller "toggle a check to strip metadata" is one of those shit jobs offloaded to the user; what's a "metadata"?
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@ebassi Well, in my mind "metadata" is just a shorthand word we use to talk about it in this nerdy context, just trying to figure out if this is possible and good, not what would be used in the actual product.
Sure, putting the onus on the user, but that's what we already do. This would at least expose many more people to the knowledge that there even is identifying data in the file, and that it's possible to remove. And make it many times easier to remove than today. @older @webhat
