Keep your privacy online by deleting metadata from photos before posting them

Jan 15, 2024 | NEWS, APPLE, FREEBIES, GOOGLE, LESSONS, MICROSOFT, SECURITY, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOFTWARE / LINUX

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Images taken with phones or digital cameras contain Metadata. “metadata” are important information such as information about the photographer, the date of taking the photo, the type of camera, dimensions, the geographic location of the GPS and other information that is virtual added to the images by various photographic programs that can be used to track you on the Internet.

So we will find out in this article how to prevent this by deleting that data from images before uploading them online.

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Free and open source ExifCleaner for Windows, Linux and Mac, it allows you to delete metadata from photos to prevent you from tracking online as we mentioned. Download the software from the link under the post and then enjoy it. You will find a simple interface. All you need to do is to Drag and Drop images that want to delete their metadata to the inside of the software. The deletion process will be automatic and quick by the software.

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After completing the deletion process you will get the result before and after deleting the metadata as in the picture

Keep your privacy online by deleting metadata from photos before posting them ExifCleaner 2

This way it will prevent external parties from tracking you online as well as reduce the size of images slightly

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Here where you can download ExifCleaner

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