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by al_borland 460 days ago
A responsible site will strip this on the user’s behalf, but no one should rely on that.

If I want to be lazy about it and quality doesn’t matter, I’ll take a screenshot as a quick way to strip EXIF data, the location being the key piece I want gone.

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I don't grant my camera app location permissions, so the images are never tagged with gps in the first place, but I also will screen shot pictures before sending them anywhere.