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Sharing files from authenticated sites (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Should I be concerned before I share a video I downloaded from a site I needed to log in to with a username and password? Does the file I have include data that references my account? If so is there away to remove it before I share it?

Signed I am tired of feeling like I don't contribute to the community.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It's unlikely that there's some identifying information, but you can use ffmpeg (using the "copy" codec to avoid a re-encode) to strip metadata. It's also theoretically possible for the video to have used some stenography techniques, but that would be much harder and expensive for the video creator/publisher so I doubt that happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not unlikely. Watermarking is real. And they don't make it easy to strip off.

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