>>dsr12+(OP)
While I can't make useful comments on protests or strong anonymity, wrt photo metadata, I can say that I scrub metadata from photos that leave my possession, as a matter of course, using 'exiftool'.
Here is how you read the existing metadata:
exiftool -a -u -g1 IMG_0708.JPG | more
... and here is how you scrub it:
exiftool -all= IMG_0708.JPG
(you could read it again, after scrubbing, to demonstrate it is gone ...)