what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

Sparky678348@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 417 points –

I don't know what a .webp file is but I don't like it. They're like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you're looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit

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Here's a Firefox extension that adds right-click context menu options to save the webp as PNG or JPEG:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-webp-as-png-or-jpeg/
and its GitHub page:
https://github.com/jscher2000/Save-webP-as-extension

Makes it a bit easier than downloading the webp and converting it.

Google is going to fuck it all up. So try the add-on when you can.

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