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Discord doesn't strip EXIF from PNGs, only JPEGs



Seriously? What's the reasoning behind that?


It's rare to see PNGs in-the-wild containing EXIF data, it's a feature that's only been in the spec since ~2017. I'm actually looking for one to double-check my statement about discord, but I can't find any.

Edit: I made my own. I can confirm that the exif chunk was not stripped. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/541730746805649476/10...


That's interesting. I've seen a couple of rotated PNGs before which I assumed were caused by Discord stripping the EXIF and orientation data. Found a PNG like that without EXIF from May 2022 so I wonder if Discord stopped stripping or if it was stripped on the person's device somewhere.




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