Why doesn’t Signal strip “date taken” metadata from videos while it does from pictures? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months 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.

[-] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

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

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