The quiet ledger inside every photograph.
Every time you take a photograph, your camera writes a second file alongside it — an invisible dossier called EXIF. It records the make and model of the lens, the precise GPS coordinates, the millisecond the shutter clicked, the firmware that processed the image, and increasingly, the AI model that generated it.
For the photographer it is a footnote. For an investigator — friendly or otherwise — it is a confession. The ledger has outed activists, leaked address books, and undermined every claim that an image is "authentic." It has also become the fastest way to spot a Midjourney render in the wild: the software signs its work whether you asked it to or not.
Most consumer apps scrub a fraction of these fields and call the file clean. They are not. EXIF_Gone takes a more honest approach: it re-encodes images from raw pixel data and re-muxes videos with every metadata atom dropped. What survives is the picture itself. Nothing else.
The tool ships as a Docker image you run on your own hardware. No telemetry, no upload, no third party. The container has no network volumes mounted. Every byte you feed it lives in memory, then dies there.
"Removing metadata is the cheapest, most overlooked privacy hygiene you can practise. EXIF_Gone makes it the work of a single click."