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On the obnoxiousness of WebP (self.artporn)

submitted 4 months ago by MalReynolds to c/artporn@lemm.ee

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Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it's google 'owned' transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that's lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?

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[–] MalReynolds 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hmm, shall look into it.

So, when I open an image in a new tab I get

https://slrpnk.net/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F36%2F58%2F2e%2F36582e9915de4e1ece7ec4021b21b268.jpg

Type: WEBP (document.contentType=image/webp)

Dimensions: 557px × 900px

Seems like it was a jpg, but now it's webp (and yes I've tried to convince firefox to not like webp, seems to be ignored.

Is there a switch the admin can pull to stop this? They're pretty nice, but I'd like to make it easy on them.

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh interesting, this is a bit different than what I thought you were experiencing.

So when I visit that post from my instance that doesn't happen. https://ani.social/post/4400463

It appears slrpnk.net is using a new feature called Image Proxying Its meant to protect you from data-mining and optimizes the data used.

I'm not aware of it theres a way to shut it off per user or not. I would recommend asking slrpnk.net's admin.

[–] MalReynolds 3 points 4 months ago

Mffh cool, and annoying in this case, but generally good. Might just stick with it and use another instance as needed. Thank you kindly for letting me know.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 4 months ago

It’s generally done to save tons of disk space. We are running these with our own $.