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Sample finding
Listing #11203 (home goods category) retained GPS coordinates accurate to approximately 50 meters, likely from a phone photo taken at the seller's residence. Coordinates redacted. EXIF processing varies by seller upload path.
What it would take to fix
Etsy is partway there but still exposing users on certain upload paths. Filtrate's /v1/process fills the gap: it strips all EXIF metadata, removes GPS coordinates, and recompresses to WebP on every image, every time — no path variance. The integration is a single POST call in the upload pipeline. Closing a C to an A requires about one afternoon of engineering work.
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Fix this for your platform
One API call. EXIF stripped, GPS removed, WebP compressed, compliance checked. Fraction of a cent per image.