WEBP is a cancer

Its alright except its basically Google owned and nobody really wants to support it, even though the image processing libraries they already use almost certainly support it.

People wouldn't really care if Google had taken the time to work with others to make sure it was everywhere day one. Didn't Windows explorer only get support in like, the past year?

I'd prefer JPEGXL or something but the, using Google images pisses me off more than the format itself. That shutterstock lawsuit really fucked its utility. That probably doesn't help its rep either as it's basically the only place you get them.

On the surface it's an OK format with lots of options and decent compression.
 
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Ah yes, Web Pee - the lolcow of the image formats.
Caesar said:
People wouldn't really care if Google had taken the time to work with others to make sure it was everywhere day one. Didn't Windows explorer only get support in like, the past year?
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You could technically install it in Windows 7 so that Photo Viewer could show them, but thumbnails were unavailable, and the animated ones were still fucked.
 
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Lifeguard Hermit said:
I think the bigger issue is the fact that many websites are moving to this as the standard image format as a way to quote unquote combat piracy. So it's fairly enraging that they have decided that using a format that sucks is the best way to combat piracy
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Are they? It's still mainly just Google and some content delivery networks that use it to compress on the fly on news sites etc, no?

If anything it seems like a lot of people are waiting to see if AVIF makes any waves
 
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Are they?
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Yeah this isn't just my observation this is literally something I read not too long ago. And you're correct as far as it seeming to be just major Publications but many websites I load up right now especially news sites when I try to download the image it only gives me the option of webp and I've just been using a Snipping tool to steal images when I don't want to deal with that bullshit.

I made a meme last night about the volleyball team that's getting barred for having the tranny player and all I wanted to do was just put the Space Jam monsters in the image field and I had to do exactly that where I had to snip the Articles image because it wanted to save it as a webp

And if you try to save it as all files and save as a PNG or jpeg it just corrupts the image. Like sometimes Photoshop and gimp will even refuse to open it
 
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Lifeguard Hermit said:
And you're correct as far as it seeming to be just major Publications but many websites I load up right now especially news sites when I try to download the image it only gives me the option of webp and I've just been using a Snipping tool to steal images when I don't want to deal with that bullshit.
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I don't think it's an anti piracy conspiracy personally, they're just using CDNs to serve their images, videos and other assets, and a lot of them will just automatically convert them to the smallest file size widely supported, which is webp. It can knock 35% or so off your bandwidth bill, which is pretty significant for some of these sites.

Shutterstock did fuck Google images in the name of "copyright" which is why they no longer directly link to full images, only offer WebP, etc, but that was years ago.
 
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Lifeguard Hermit said:
I think the bigger issue is the fact that many websites are moving to this as the standard image format as a way to quote unquote combat piracy. So it's fairly enraging that they have decided that using a format that sucks is the best way to combat piracy
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Everyone is compressing to WEBP to save storage/bandwidth, not as an "anti-piracy" measure.

If XenForo supported inserting WEBP images into posts, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Caesar said:
If anything it seems like a lot of people are waiting to see if AVIF makes any waves
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Some of them are already serving up AVIF too, such as https://theguardian.com/

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Isn't JPEGXL basically as good as WEBP for compression with the added benefit of being backwards compatible?
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That's a whole big fiasco, and Google is definitely involved in suppressing it.

FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony
Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It
 
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