I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    I never said GIF was all that great. Hell, beyond the fact that it was piss poor compression, it didn’t even have audio. 🤦‍♂️

    Now MPEG1/2, MP3 and JPEG weren’t all that bad, considering the era of technology they came from.

    I can definitely agree that modern compression has improved beyond that even, but at the same time now everything is automatically tagging in all sorts of extra data like, I dunno, the GPS location the image/video was taken. Like hey, let’s just broadcast everyone’s address to the rest of the world…

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        12·
        11 months ago

        Of course, yes, you can. But back then, that was usually up to the person recording the media to manually add metadata later in processing.

        These days everything is getting tagged automatically as you’re recording stuff.

        Bye bye privacy.