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Allow the user to generate an info.json file with identifying data scrubbed #25681
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Again:
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How can it be |
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It was implied by another tubeup user that it would be better for youtube-dl to do it to avoid deliberately modifying files uploaded to the Internet Archive. I don't entirely understand this reasoning either. |
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--write-info-jsonflag has the potential to include identifying data in the generated info.json file. This includes (but is potentially not limited to):_filenamefield may contain the full path name rather than the file name, which may allow the user's home directory name and OS to be inferred (this does not happen by default)It should preferably be possible to generate a JSON file with identifying data scrubbed from the file.
This is related to (but not exactly the same issue as) #25576. This is mainly because the IP address leakage issue was not identified initially.