Clear hidden tags that hitchhike inside files before those files leave your desk.
Files carry more than the visible content. Authors, software names, revision history, GPS in images, and other tags can travel with a share you thought was clean.
A metadata scrubber strips common embedded fields and returns a cleaned file you can send. The visible document or media remains for the recipient to open.
Different formats store tags differently. After a high-stakes scrub, verify with a viewer that the fields you care about are gone.
Scrubbing is not encryption. Anyone with the cleaned file still sees the content. Use passwords when confidentiality of the bytes matters.
Client deliveries, press packs, and public uploads are common scrub moments. Internal path names and author fields do not belong in an external ZIP.
Photos headed to social or email should lose GPS when location privacy matters. Pair image scrubbing with a visual crop if street signs remain in pixels.
Do not scrub evidence masters you must preserve. Duplicate first: keep a forensic original, scrub only the circulation copy.
Teaching packets sometimes leak teacher machine names through office metadata. Scrub before students download.
Upload the file. Start the scrub job and keep the tab open until the cleaned download is ready.
Open the result once. Confirm the content still looks correct after the strip.
For images, follow with an EXIF viewer. For office documents, check properties in a desktop app when the audience is sensitive.
Name cleaned files clearly so you never attach the tagged original by mistake.
Images and common documents are the everyday case. Exotic proprietary formats may only partially scrub.
Free size and daily ceilings apply. Huge video files may need a different workflow or Pro headroom.
Some apps rewrite metadata on open and save. Scrub last, just before send, when that is a risk.
Compressed archives may contain many tagged members. Scrubbing a ZIP shell does not clean every file inside—extract, scrub members, rezip when that is the requirement.
Journalism and legal teams sometimes need provenance. Scrubbing destroys some of that trail on purpose for the public copy.
Label folders clearly: original versus scrubbed. Mixing them is how audits fail.
Screenshots of the content still bypass metadata scrubbing. Pixel redaction is a separate job.
Corporate DLP tools may still inspect content. Scrubbing tags is not a bypass for security policy.
Move cleaned files into the outbound folder your team already uses.
Prepared server copies expire. Disk is the lasting cleaned file.
Delete tagged temps from shared desktops after the scrubbed packet is filed.
Free limits apply per file. Plan the set that must go out today.
It does not blur faces or text in the picture or PDF page.
It does not remove watermarks burned into pixels.
It does not repair corrupt files.
It does not grant permission to share content you should not share.
Take a minute after the file lands to open it once. Confirming early is cheaper than discovering a bad transfer when you are already away from the network. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Name files with a human subject and a date. Default download names collide, and cleanup tools delete keepers that look like temporary junk. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Prepared files on the worker expire on a short timer. The lasting copy is the one your browser wrote into your downloads folder. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Free use covers ordinary daily jobs with published size and count ceilings. Pro raises those ceilings and removes advertising when your volume needs it. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
If a step fails, reproduce the same address or upload in a normal browser first. When the source itself will not play or open, this page will not invent a working file. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Keep this tab open until the browser finishes writing. Closing early is a common way to create a short file that looks complete until you open it. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Vidzilla focuses on one job at a time: one URL or one upload. Bulk crawlers and account takeovers are out of scope on these tool pages. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
When you need a different format later, convert from the local file you already trust instead of re-fetching a page that may change or disappear. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Phone and desktop browsers both work when the paste or upload is valid. Unstable mobile networks are a frequent cause of truncated writes, so watch the download finish indicator. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
Do not send passwords, unlock keys, or private account cookies into the paste box. Public page addresses and ordinary uploads are the intended inputs. On the scrubber page, that habit protects the exact file you came here to create.
No. Scrubbing removes tags; encryption locks the file. Use both when needed.
No. Keep a tagged master and scrub only circulation copies.
No. You can upload a file, scrub metadata, and download without an account, within published free daily counts and size limits.
Visible pixels and audio stay the same as the upload. Hidden properties such as EXIF, GPS, and document metadata change or clear depending on the scrub options you select.
Scrub members individually when each file must be clean. A shell scrub is not enough.
Open properties or an EXIF viewer on the cleaned file.