> I'm fond of boosting privacy issue awareness

No, you very clearly are not if you think it is "insane" to even just talk about this as a privacy issue. The location of an EXIF stripped image can easily be inferred, automatically, at scale, with high accuracy. If that isn't a privacy issue, I don't know what is. You may not feel it is a big concern, or you may have given up on privacy, but don't gaslight me into thinking that this is not a privacy concern. That would be literally insane. Why are you so upset with this being talked about as a privacy issue?

And I don't know why you feel compelled to give this disclaimer. Sounds like the bad faith "as a diehard conservative/liberal, this conservative/liberal policy goes too far" when in fact they are not from that side at all. "Privacy is harder now on the internet, so it is impossible, just give up" is what everyone who profits from personal data collection wants you to think.

Sadly that is part of the internet commenter's rhetorical toolbox now. Every argument sounds a little stronger if you say that you are usually part of one team on this side of the argument, but you think your team has gone too far on this one. Classic enlightened centrism. What an independent thinker! If only it were true.