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One format to rule them all, One format to find them, One format to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of the Bay Area where the shadows lie.

Maybe if web pages weren’t also loading like 25mb of javascript it wouldn’t be such a big deal to load 5mb of uncompressed images.

Also, they regularly try to sidestep the W3C web standards commission or use their market position to influence W3C standards to push for their own standards over competing standards. I feel this point cannot be understated that their attempts to dictate web standards to their benefit directly undermines user choice and truly free standards that aren’t open to undue influence from one company with market dominance.

Google literally has a long history of promoting open formats to eventually close those open formats and make them less open.

GoogleTalk originally supported XMPP and then XMPP support was dropped when they changed it to “Google Hangouts.”

Android was originally open source and still largely is, but now they’re not publishing the device information for Pixel devices, putting actually open operating systems like LineageOS and GraphiteOS in the position of having to reverse engineer drivers to be able to move forward.

Chrome was originally a lot more open as well, but as Google gained market share dominance with their web browser, they made it slowly more and more closed off with only Chromium being really open, and they also used that market position to start to push their own solutions as web standards (what they’ve done with WEBP, actually) instead of having community input from the W3C.

Everyone: “Stop using stuff made by Google that they make with intent of owning the web!”

Also everyone: “Don’t you understand why WEBP is the best format??”

JPG-XL crying in the corner.

…and her name is Deanna.

Miles O’Brien: A Union Man of the Jimmy Hoffa variety.

This is the internet, maybe build it yourself instead of demanding others do the work for you?

You could also just as easily only paste in the encoded part and put the decoded bit back into the link yourself.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API

The File System API — with extensions provided via the File System Access API to access files on the device file system — allows read, write and file management capabilities.

Uhhh, what? Firefox uses Chrome’s API to do the same stuff? Am I missing something here?

Rocko: “Night shift is a very dangerous shift.”

Riker is a hoopy frood who always knows where his towel is.

Janeway on Tuvix: “There’s two people in there and I don’t like it.”

Just one big borgy.

Sisko likes to do a little bit of war criming… As a treat.

Sucks to suck, Windows.

No Gods, No Kings, Only Quark!