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might make an article about safety when it comes to platforms like neocities. these are my two main points. is there anything i should add?

• many cameras including basically all smartphones save the location and time a photo was taken inside its metadata. unlike social media and chat services that remove it for you, static site hosts serve the exact file you uploaded, including that location and time data.

you should remove this metadata yourself if you don't want people to know exactly where and when the photo was taken. for most people, it's probably bad for people to know where you live, so this is especially important for photos taken in and near your home.

(i would then explain how to do it.)

• do not publish real-life secrets—the kind of stuff people really shouldn't know—in. args use things like html comments, base-64 strings, and invisible text precisely because they are meant to be solved in a reasonable amount of time. if you think you've found a clever way to hide a secret that nobody will find, no you haven't.

don't even upload encrypted archives with great passwords. having the encrypted data in the first place gets a bad actor a gigantic step closer to cracking it.

these methods are perfectly fine for fun little easter eggs, though.