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tiz@lemmy.ml to The Signal messenger and protocol.@lemmy.mlEnglish · 17 days ago

Why doesn’t Signal strip “date taken” metadata from videos while it does from pictures?

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Why doesn’t Signal strip “date taken” metadata from videos while it does from pictures?

tiz@lemmy.ml to The Signal messenger and protocol.@lemmy.mlEnglish · 17 days ago
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  • le_throosh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Sounds like a bug tbh

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    17 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.

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

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

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

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