(Jul 6, 2025 12:56 PM)Charlie Sheen Wrote:  YouTube strips most of the metadata from a video, but you should still scrub your metadata before you upload. There's apps for it, or if you're uploading from computer then you can do it manually.

Depending on the types of videos you post make sure to blur any landmarks. Don't link your YouTube to other social media accounts.

(Jul 6, 2025 01:37 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  how do you scrub manually?

(Jul 6, 2025 01:38 PM)Charlie Sheen Wrote:  Are you on PC or mobile?

(Jul 6, 2025 01:44 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  mac

(Jul 6, 2025 12:56 PM)Charlie Sheen Wrote:  YouTube strips most of the metadata from a video, but you should still scrub your metadata before you upload. There's apps for it, or if you're uploading from computer then you can do it manually.

Depending on the types of videos you post make sure to blur any landmarks. Don't link your YouTube to other social media accounts.

(Jul 6, 2025 02:06 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  what iphone apps are there to scrub metadata?

does youtube (more or less) get rid of your location info? sure if someone is dedicated enough to find my location info they will find it but would some (barely tech savvy or "average joe" user not be able to find it if i just rely on youtube to scrub metadata?

(Jul 6, 2025 02:06 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  what iphone apps are there to scrub metadata?

does youtube (more or less) get rid of your location info? sure if someone is dedicated enough to find my location info they will find it but would some (barely tech savvy or "average joe" user not be able to find it if i just rely on youtube to scrub metadata?

(Jul 6, 2025 02:10 PM)skull Wrote:  On iPhone, you can open Photos app, find the video or photo, click on the “i” icon bottom center, there you can see the location data among other and remove it.

(Jul 6, 2025 02:24 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  good idea👍 question: does it really make a difference if I utilize this or not. I heard that youtube scrubs meta data.

I mean if someone is dedicated enough they can find me. But I am just protecting myself from garden variety bored trolls/haters etc.👍

(Jul 6, 2025 03:19 PM)DramaKing Wrote:  YouTube would have to save metadata in order to display it. It's been a long time, but I think that there was a setting for location when uploading videos.

You can use this tool on your videos. https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-geofind

(Jul 6, 2025 03:42 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  cool👍 how do i install/use it on mac?

(Jul 6, 2025 02:11 PM)Charlie Sheen Wrote:  For the most part YouTube removes everything. On iPhone there's a couple apps. I don't use iPhone so you'd have to look up exif on the app store.

(Jul 6, 2025 06:05 PM)johndoeman805 Wrote:  ah i got it👍 question. so i record a video from iphone (accidentally has location info) i then upload the vid to youtube, download it/edit it in imovie and then reupload that video (and then download it one final time to share the file with my friends) is it (likely) there will be any location info? Sure if some maniac really wanted to find my location they could 🤣 But just your garden variety trolls probably not?

-thx

Just trying to be prudent/sensible but not go overboard etc👍