You need to remove exif without recompressing the image. Not removing exif is bad, phones store your location by default if you take a picture.
Yes please... you have to remove exif data, either when you are serving the images or at saving... but exif data should be removed.
Yes, I will keep removing Exif from images. I completely agree that this is an important thing.
The problem has already been reported, to be analyzed and corrected.
I also made the request to @Theymos.
