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I really hope this is revisited - JXL seems to be faster and better compression than HEIC/AVIF.

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.

> 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.

I'm so glad I've never worked in these kind of companies... It sounds like an awful workplace.

I 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.

What 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.

I said nearly-proprietary. WebP is technically open but nobody would give a crap about it if Google weren't promoting it.

WebP 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.

I 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.

It 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.

You do know that Google was one of the main contributors to JPEG XL (see https://github.com/google/pik ) ?

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