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Privacy-Safe Photos

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Remove location and device metadata from photos, resize them for sharing, and compress — before anything leaves your device.

Why this recipe exists

A photo taken on a phone usually records where it was taken, on what device, and at what moment. Posting one publicly can therefore disclose a home address to anyone who cares to look. Large platforms strip this on upload, but files sent by email, chat or a cloud link very often keep it. This recipe removes every metadata block, bounds the image to a sensible sharing size, compresses it, and packages the result — all in your browser, which is the only place this particular job should ever happen.

What it does

  1. Remove EXIF, GPS and device metadata
  2. Bound to 2000px for sharing
  3. Compress under 500 KB
  4. Package the clean photos

FAQ

Do the photos ever leave my device?
No, and that is the entire point of running this locally. Uploading a photo to a server to have its location removed means handing that location to the server first.
How do I know the metadata is really gone?
Removal works by re-encoding the pixels through a canvas — only pixel data survives that round trip, so there is nothing left to recover. You can confirm with the EXIF Viewer on the output.
Will the photos still look the same?
Visually yes. They are bounded to 2000 pixels and compressed to around 500 KB, which is indistinguishable on a screen and much lighter to send.

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