There are bots and lurkers here with bad intentions. Just takes a couple of post with vague personal info to narrow it down.

This state, that city, I work as, my sister, etc.

Basically did it myself awhile ago and the admin saved me.

Be careful.

    • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      Either way, it never hurts to do it yourself, just in case. At this point for chapo, I don't think it's something worth worrying too much about, but in general, even a site that does scrub exif data could become compromised.

    • Not_irony [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Don't know what that is. Someone smarter than me should put together some posting tips/guidelines. I'm gonna start screen grabbing any photos I post. The quality will be shit, but whatever.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Scrambled Exif on F-Droid works well at getting rid of it. Exit is just metadata that is stored in the image file. Usually stuff like camera info, date taken, and if you have it enabled, location.

        • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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          4 years ago

          It's funny how it legit just has your fucking gps coordinates. Lots of people have outed themselves doing crimes because of it. Oh did I say funny I meant fucking lame

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ah yes, that's why jpegs are rotated at weird angles sometimes unless you manually rotate them first.