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?

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  • LuycYQ2uUiTjR3yLri@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.