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If the compression is good enough, always. Lossy compression was born out of necessity, after all.

• matzipan 11y ago
  It was not born out of necessity. It was born because of the way your brain percieves the images. There is no need in adding detail if your brain can live happily without it. And if FLIF achieves such great lossless compression, imagine what amazing compression you can achieve with lossy compression.
  • pferde 11y ago
    Let's take a step back. Why did developers start to think about how the brain perceives details and how to trick it in the first place? Out of a necessity to save bandwidth and/or storage space.
    • matzipan 11y ago
      You have a point. But I also like fast, snappy websites :P