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Google uses lossy compression on its images, so it has more flexibility than Flickr does with regards to optimizations.
by ec109685 10y ago
Google uses lossy compression on its images, so it has more flexibility than Flickr does with regards to optimizations.
- londons_explore 10y agoThey likley still store the originals though, even though they don't make them available for download. YouTube does that, so that when a new video compression format comes along, they can transcode into it.
- webmaven 10y agoGoogle uses lossy compression on it's unlimited free "high quality" image storage[0]. Storing original uncompressed images eats into the 15GB free storage budget, and uses paid storage upgrades after that. Unless you have a Pixel phone (free unlimited original uncompressed image storage). [0] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791