The privacy problem for eBay sellers
eBay is the world's largest secondary marketplace, with over 130 million active buyers. If you're selling from home — which most individual and small eBay sellers do — every photo you take with your smartphone contains hidden GPS coordinates that pinpoint your exact location.
When buyers download your listing images (which anyone can do), they can extract these coordinates with free tools. This is a serious privacy risk — especially for sellers of high-value items like electronics, collectibles, and vintage goods.
Exif Injector strips GPS and other sensitive EXIF fields from your photos while simultaneously injecting useful metadata: IPTC keywords, copyright notices, and descriptions that help with cross-platform reuse and Google Images indexing.
In a widely cited case, a public figure was located through GPS coordinates embedded in a photo posted online. Every smartphone photo contains this data by default. Before uploading to any public marketplace, strip it. Exif Injector does this automatically while adding commercial metadata.
eBay image specifications
How keywords help eBay listings
eBay's Cassini search algorithm ranks listings based on title relevance, item specifics, description quality, and seller metrics. While eBay doesn't read embedded IPTC metadata, the AI-generated keywords serve as your title optimization tool: specific, buyer-intent terms that match how collectors and shoppers actually search.
This is especially critical for vintage, antiques, and collectibles — categories where generic keywords fail and era-specific, material-specific, and style-specific terms make the difference between visibility and obscurity.
If you sell the same items on eBay and Etsy (many vintage sellers do), embedded metadata means your keyword strategy transfers automatically. Photograph once, inject metadata once, upload to both platforms with keywords ready.
How it works
Upload listing photos
Drag & drop your item photos. GPS data detected automatically.
Strip GPS + generate keywords
Remove location data. AI generates keywords for your category (vintage, electronics, etc.).
Download clean, optimized files
No GPS, with keywords embedded. Ready for eBay, Etsy, and any other platform.