c/signal · by tiz@lemmy.ml · 205dWhy doesn’t Signal strip “date taken” metadata from videos while it does from pictures? 23 points · 5 comments · view on lemmy.world
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le_throosh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 205d
Sounds like a bug tbh
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 205d
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.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 205d
ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 10 pts · 205d
Because stripping files metadata is an expected features for a messaging client. Not for the network like you described but for the client.
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 205d
I would also heavily assume, that it happens client side before sending the content to Signal servers.
loutr@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 205d
The app knows, they could do the stripping locally before sending, like they already do for video transcoding.