I always remove this data from my screenshots before sharing, but is there any way to prevent this from happening in the first place? I’ve searched and searched, but all I can find is information about how to remove the data after the fact, which I already know how to do, but it would sure be nice if it never got added in the first place. Thanks.

  • infeeeee ( infeeeee@lemm.ee ) 
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    3 years ago

    There’s no rational reason

    https://xkcd.com/1172/

    I don’t share screenshot frequently, and I store them for a long time, in 10 years in the future this data can be useful, I won’t remember what phone and rom I had, so it can be useful for some people. I also store gps data in my photos’ exifs, but again I never share them on the public internet.

    But a button to switch it onoff would be useful, that’s true.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav ( LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social ) OP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yeah. In my opinion, it’s more of Samsung’s bullshit. There’s really no conceivable reason not to give users the option to avoid having metadata saved with their screenshots. It’s super annoying because I have to open it with a third-party app, strip the metadata, save the stripped image, then delete the original (which I rarely do, because it’s so time consuming already, so it’s taking up twice the amount of storage for me).

      I did find a third-party screenshot app that doesn’t save metadata, but it’s problematic in its own way, so I won’t use it.

      I’ll just keep stripping it manually. It’s a pita though, and I feel like there should be an easy solution. A lot of users in this thread say their phones don’t save metadata in their screenshots, but I’m unfortunate enough to have a Samsung.