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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The forcing of it from Google, trying to set their standards for the web. What's wrong with jpg and png?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Webp has better compression than png and jpg which allows websites to load faster and consume less bandwith

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

We could have jpeg xl, but Google said no

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Google's interests actually align with ours here. They want a good image compression format so pages load faster and they get more info from people instead of them bouncing. Besides the last part, we also want that, so it's a win-win. Webp is legitimately a good image format.