cohost support

It seems like Cohost currently doesn't strip Exif data from uploaded images. This is pretty dangerous, as that data can include the GPS location the image was taken at, which could result in users getting doxxed. It'd be really nice if Cohost both stripped Exif data of newly-uploaded images and also went back and retroactively stripped it from all currently-uploaded images. It'd make the site a lot safer on the whole.

if this is implemented, one thing i’d really like to ask not to be stripped is the icc color profile (which may not even be part of exif data, but ‘exif-stripping’ tools like to remove it anyway). it typically does not contain any identifying data except maybe the display model a screenshot was taken on, and it’s important for maintaining accurate colors.

(also important to not strip is rotation metadata)

A friend of mine has done a bit of investigating and it looks like standard exif-strip practices are followed when images are cached through CloudFlare's CDN but not when they're uncached, so it'd likely be better to just do the stripping on Cohost's side so it's consistent

Could the file name be stripped too? I uploaded some pictures and only then I realized my personal file names are included. It feels revealing and makes it so I need to think of my naming as public, or need to go out of my way to rename before posting