[gsa]

To play the devil's advocate, this is likely an artifact of how they store the images. Embedded EXIF does not make for an efficient filesize and separating EXIF from image data means they can have different image sizes with a single source of EXIF data.

[urbandw311er]

I think that’s a fair point, but then one could argue the onus should be on them to “reconstitute” the files before export by merging the EXIF back in.

[qmarchi]

I mean the point is that you can get it out, the JSON export just happens to be the easiest way for them.

It's even GDPR compliant.

[urbandw311er]

It’s one thing for a techy to get it out and know how to mash it all back together but quite another for my mum, for example, who would find it potentially an insurmountable blocker to changing her cloud storage provider.

[poorlyknit]

Honest question (I don't know much about about EXIF), but wouldn't the metadata be peanuts compared to the actual image data?