tsignal·The Signal messenger and protocol.bytiz Why doesn’t Signal strip “date taken” metadata from videos while it does from pictures?View original on lemmy.ml23Comments5
TropicalDingdong lemmy.world4Hide 4 repliesWhy would it? Ideally signal has no clue what's being transmitted on its network. It doesn't know if those bytes are a gif, a PDF, an mp4, flat pack, apk, anything.-4
iivn replytarte.nuage-libre.frBecause stripping files metadata is an expected features for a messaging client. Not for the network like you described but for the client.10
eeco_game replydiscuss.tchncs.deI would also heavily assume, that it happens client side before sending the content to Signal servers.8
loutr replysh.itjust.worksThe app knows, they could do the stripping locally before sending, like they already do for video transcoding.6
Sounds like a bug tbh
Why would it? Ideally signal has no clue what's being transmitted on its network. It doesn't know if those bytes are a gif, a PDF, an mp4, flat pack, apk, anything.
Because stripping files metadata is an expected features for a messaging client. Not for the network like you described but for the client.
I would also heavily assume, that it happens client side before sending the content to Signal servers.
The app knows, they could do the stripping locally before sending, like they already do for video transcoding.