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Don't hold your breath. Big G would prefer you use WebP and their other nearly-proprietary formats nobody wanted but they are pushing into wide use through the
by Cyberdog 4y ago
Don't hold your breath. Big G would prefer you use WebP and their other nearly-proprietary formats nobody wanted but they are pushing into wide use through the might of operating the most widely used browser.
But maybe if enough people finally stop using their spyware browser, there will be some hope.
- kodah 4y ago> But maybe if enough people finally stop using their spyware browser, there will be some hope. Nearly every company I've worked for requires the use of Chrome because they can manage it.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoI'm so glad I've never worked in these kind of companies... It sounds like an awful workplace.
- kodah 4y agoI have other things I judge companies for. I just assume I'm not allowed to do anything personal on a work laptop if they manage every aspect of it. I understand why they do it, however, the only thing I find unethical about it is how much companies have balked at explaining the depths to which they track internal employees.
- vlovich123 4y agoWhat proprietary video/image formats does Google have? As far as I know all their image and video formats are open, including WebP. Heck, according to Wikipedia JPEG XL was also partly driven by Google.
- Cyberdog 4y agoI said nearly-proprietary. WebP is technically open but nobody would give a crap about it if Google weren't promoting it.
- est31 4y agoWebP was only developed by Google or a company Google ended up buying. Yes, the standard is freely available, but there was no collaboration, no open process of asking people's input, etc.
- formerly_proven 4y agoI tried WebP because lighthouse heavily pushes it claiming big size reductions, the asterisk for those claims is of course way worse quality. Visually identical quality to JPEG only gave irrelevant improvements or none at all - 10 % or so are not worth the hassle over JPEG. Lighthouse also pushes WebP for PNGs but that of course falls flat on its face due to chroma subsampling. Maybe WebP is better than JPEG at low quality levels, but that’s not something I care about, what with not being in the streaming video biz.
- mekster 4y agoIt is unbelievable that it gives big red scores for not using WebP but apparently it's not an honest judgement but an attempt to push the format by abusing its search market share.
- 112233 4y agoYou do know that Google was one of the main contributors to JPEG XL (see https://github.com/google/pik https://github.com/google/pik ) ?