Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome

Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Xorlev on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:02PM (#33338402)

While true, I think it was illustrating the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" approach HN takes to Google in general.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by andsoitis on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:12PM (#33338461)

> HN takes to Google in general

Not exclusive to HN. Humans just have different opinions.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by tedd4u on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:21PM (#33338975)

But HN moderators usually seem to upvote the complaints over the kudos.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by johndfsgdgdfg on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:51PM (#33338737)

Well, Google invades our privacy. Google holds its users hostages to money. I am glad that HN is doing its job to stop Google.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by vanviegen on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:31AM (#33340161)

Hostages? I'd say Google is better than most regarding data portability, assuming that's what you're referring to, offering 'takeout' for just about everything.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by jchw on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:56PM (#33339632)

Personally, I have no idea why people are so upset about WebM and AV1 and etc. Like sure, they're not necessarily God's gift to AV, but they're reasonable enough, and patent unencumbered. Google may be awful, but that doesn't mean the incentives can't align. I can tell you that my incentives are perpendicularly aligned with MPEG-LA's in this situation, so...

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by neurostimulant on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @06:47AM (#33341928)

You can't please everyone when your service is used by half of the world's population.

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