Is this a Ridiculously Easy way to Clean Images of EXIF and other Metadata?

Why not just take a picture, transfer it to your VM, then take a screenshot from that VM? If you're signed into a good VPN and you have your VM's locale settings to match, wouldn't that new metadata of the screenshot (clipped of course,) be misleading and therefore, good?


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[2 Points] Sinji_:

That seems like a lot of work when there's software to do it in a second. Granted I always strip manually because I'm cautious about any sort of programming storing such info but you get the idea.


[1 Points] The_fire_bird:

It's guaranteed to "remove" the original metadata since you're effectively starting with a clean file, but that kinda limits your image size to your screen size.

I certainly couldn't clean the exif data from a 9 MP image this way without losing a lot of quality because my screen is only 22 inches. I'd have to zoom out to 2 MP to get the whole image to fit on to my screen and at that point, think how much detail was lost.

I might as well have just loaded gimp, and done both the resizing (at which point, might as well go for bicubic etc instead of just nearest neighbour which is what zooming out will use) and remove the exif and xmp data all in one go.