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Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability (siliconangle.com)
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[–] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WebP is not proprietary. It's an open format, is not patent-encumbered, and its reference implementation/libraries are open-source. It is driven mostly by Google, similar to Chromium.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium.

How did that turn out?

Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control.

You trust Google???

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium.

How did that turn out?

Perfectly? Web browsers are way better now than they ever have been.

Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control.

WebP is a little better than PNG/JPEG and way better than GIF. That's all that really matters.

You trust Google???

Hell no. I reluctantly watch a bit of content that's exclusively available on YouTube. Don't use anything else of theirs and I'd drop YouTube in a heartbeat if I could find that content elsewhere.