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[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wait am I the only one who actually likes WEBP and is cheering for JPEG to finally die ? 😭

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

If webp didn't come from google I might cheer it. I refuse to adopt any standard made by google if I can help it. If google made it, they made it with some reason or ability to alter it that's nefarious and anti consumer. They wouldn't make an improved open standard that wasn't going to allow them to do shady shit.

[-] valtia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They made it because better image compression means less storage is required for images. Even if it's a small upgrade, over trillions of images or exabytes of data saved translates into millions of dollars saved. This is the same thing for the delta format as another example

By making .webp an open standard, more people will use it, thus more space savings will be had by default

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago

That makes it sound like webp is the only option, it isn't.

[-] valtia@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure Google literally doesn't care, as long as a more effective compression algorithm is used. That's why they made it an open standard, use whatever you want but don't demonize .webp unnecessarily