Jannis@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoChrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerabilitysiliconangle.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down14
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minus-squareGawdl3y@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoWebP is not proprietary. It’s an open format, is not patent-encumbered, and its reference implementation/libraries are open-source. It is driven mostly by Google, similar to Chromium.
minus-squaremeseek #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down6·1 year agoThey took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium. How did that turn out? Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control. You trust Google???
WebP is not proprietary. It’s an open format, is not patent-encumbered, and its reference implementation/libraries are open-source. It is driven mostly by Google, similar to Chromium.
They took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium.
How did that turn out?
Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control.
You trust Google???