A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla (update: Mozilla has now

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.

    • Callie@pawb.socialEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      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

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          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.