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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by doctorpangloss on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:38PM (#38659137)
> I wonder if there's some issue with the WebP encoder (or the settings) he is using?

He's re-encoding the JPEG compressed images. That is a huge mistake.

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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by virtualritz on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:48PM (#38660291)
From the article:

> It’s not 100 % clean either, but much better. Granted, this is WebP re-encoding of an already lossy compressed JPEG, so we stack 2 steps of destructive compression. But this is what Google Page Speed insights encourage you to do and what a shitload of plugins enable you to do, while pretending it’s completely safe. It’s not.

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