forever mad that google are trying to push their shitty webp image format, going as far as enabling it by default without consensus from anyone else in their monopoly browser to pump up user numbers, meanwhile they shut down viable, open, and objectively more capable competing formats such as jpeg xl by hiding them away in experimental feature flags, saying "oh no no-one wants it :(" and then removing support for them completely
even fucking adobe, one of the least innovative tech companies on the planet, was ready to roll out full support for jpeg xl, but google are utter bastards and want their bastard son image format to "win" at all costs, even if it turns out to be a malware vector
fucking slap google with an anticompetition lawsuit already
edit: people are not happy about it
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1178058
if firefox implements jpeg xl support, I'll probably end up switching back over. I don't hold anything against the vivaldi team, but they simply don't have the people or resources to re-implement something that's been removed from chromium
I maintain that google should not be allowed to dictate what file formats we use on the web. fuck google.
while I'm on the subject of fuck google, did you know they sabotaged windows phone at every turn? I had one at the time, and whilst far from perfect, its only real flaw was a lack of apps - it had a lack of apps because there weren't enough people using it, and people weren't using it because of the lack of apps. sounds familiar, huh?
anyway microsoft worked with google to make the windows phone youtube app, and it was absolutely fantastic! you could even download videos - and I mean download them, DRM-free. google later turned around (after helping add this feature) to finger-wag at microsoft, and cut off API access to the app, so microsoft removed that feature, and google cut it off again mere days later for "not making necessary browser upgrades" -- now bear in mind that windows phone used the same browser as on desktop, so surely desktop users would have also been "breaking terms of service" for accessing the site, right?
