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Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the "zero-click" iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both, since it’s barely supported by anything I use and it doesn’t seem like webp solves anything that gif doesn’t already do

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The file size and quality is much better on webp.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep webp offers thousands to millions more colors compared to gif's 256. Full alpha support. Not the 1bit alpha of gif. And is exponentially smaller file size for the same resolution and time.