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That's why I always prefer an offline converter. Also if your upload a file somewhere the website can save it for their own purpose alhough they say they won't do it.
Which offline converter? I find myself often trying to convert:
etc. I have no idea how to do that but if I type it into a search engine there's usually tools there.
imagemagick handles almost all image files
ffmpeg handles almost all video files
if you use gnome there's a nice little feature of the file explorer where you can just drag and drop scripts into
~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
for example
make a fish script (ignoring error checking for brevity here, my real script had a couple guard rails)
then when you right click on a file in your gnome file explorer you can click the scripts option
and the script is right there so you can just easily convert with the press of a button
note, i crossed out some stuff that includes client names
tldr: there are so many ways to do what you need to do there's no reason to trust random websites you don't know. there's a lot of slimey people out there wanting to take advantage of people. and everybody should strive to be at least a little computer literate. the examples i gave here aren't complicated. they're simple commands
That's a pretty sweet feature in GNOME! I'll need to see if there is something similar for KDE.