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Marketplace Image Privacy Audit · June 2026

MercadoLibre Image Privacy Report — Grade C

8% GPS leak across a geographically diverse seller base. MercadoLibre's image CDN strips EXIF on the majority of paths, but inconsistencies persist — particularly for listings uploaded via the mobile app. WebP adoption is growing but uneven.

Last updated: 2026-06-04  ·  n=20 images sampled
MercadoLibre Privacy Index Grade C
8% GPS Leak Rate
C
27% EXIF Retention Rate
C
52% WebP / AVIF Adoption
C
20 Images Sampled

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How MercadoLibre compares

Platforms ranked above and below MercadoLibre in the index, by overall grade.

Platform Grade GPS Leak EXIF Retention WebP/AVIF
Vestiaire Collective C 8% 26% 61%
MercadoLibre YOU ARE HERE C 8% 27% 52%
eBay C 9% 31% 44%

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What it would take to fix

MercadoLibre 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.

Read the integration guide →

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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.