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Photo metadata: view and strip

A phone photo carries the coordinates of where it was taken, accurate to the house, the camera model and serial number, the time down to the second, sometimes the owner’s name. This page shows what is inside your particular file and cuts out everything extra without touching the pixels themselves.

Drop a photo in — it never leaves your device.

Drop photos here or · JPEG, PNG, WebP

Files are read inside the tab and sent nowhere. Pixels are left alone: only the service sections are cut out.

What hides in a photo

WhatHow preciseWhy it matters
Where it was takento within a few metreshome, work, your child’s school — from a single post
Camera model and serial numberthe exact unitties all your photos together, even ones posted under different names
Date and timeto the secondreconstructs your daily routine and refutes "I was somewhere else"
Owner name and softwareas written by the cameradirect deanonymisation, if the field is filled in

When this matters

A photo sent through a messenger or posted to a social network is usually already clean — the platforms strip metadata themselves to save space. But a file sent "as a document", attached to a classified ad, uploaded to a forum or to your own site goes out as it is. Selling things secondhand, posting anonymously, sending documents — those are exactly the cases where it is worth checking the file before, not after.

Nearby: what sites know about you without any IP and stripping tags from links.

Metadata is what you hand over yourself

The rest about you is told by your address. 404 VPN hides it, and we keep neither visit logs nor DNS queries: there is nothing to hand over on request.

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FAQ

guest@404vpn:~$ cat exif-faq.md
[01] $ Will the photo quality suffer? ▸
> No, and that is the main difference from most pages like this. They usually remove metadata by re-encoding through a canvas: the image is recompressed, detail is lost, and the file sometimes even grows. We take the file apart into its service sections and throw out only the ones holding metadata. The bytes of the image itself stay as they were — it is the same photo with the note taken out of it.
[02] $ What exactly do you delete? ▸
> From JPEG — the Exif section with everything in it (coordinates, camera, lens, serial number, time, the maker’s MakerNote), XMP, the IPTC block and text comments. From PNG — text chunks and eXIf. From WebP — the EXIF and XMP chunks. The ICC colour profile is kept on purpose: without it the colours shift, and it threatens no one’s privacy.
[03] $ Is the file really not sent to your server? ▸
> Really. The page reads the file from the tab’s memory through the File API and builds the new one right there — no network requests happen at all. You do not have to take our word for it: open the developer tools, the Network tab, and clean a file — no new requests will appear.
[04] $ A screenshot or a picture from a messenger — are there coordinates in those too? ▸
> Usually not: messengers and social networks strip metadata on upload, and a screenshot is made by the system itself, which puts no coordinates in it. The dangerous one is the original file from the camera — the one you send "as a document", uncompressed, or upload to a site directly.
[05] $ Why are there no coordinates in my photo even though location is on? ▸
> Then the camera app was never granted access to location data, or it is off for particular shots. Another option is that the file has already passed through a service that stripped the metadata. That is good news: there is nothing to delete.