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They helped create jpegXL but they are not the sole owner like they are with webp. There is a difference.

a better argument might be that chrome protects their own vs a research group in google switzerland, however as other mentioned the security implications of another unsafe binary parser in a browser is hardly worth it

Webp has had major vulnerabilities.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/uncovering-the-hidden-webp-vulne...

which only strengthens my argument, webp seemed like some ad-hoc pet project in chrome, and that ended like most unsafe binary parsers, with critical vulnerabilities

> webp seemed like some ad-hoc pet project in chrome

FWIW webp came from the same "research group in google switzerland" that later developed jpegxl.

I now see that webp lossless is definitely from there, but the webp base format looks acquired from a US startup, was the image format also adapted in the swiss group?

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