I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.
Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit
supposedly it’s a better format. in practice it’s worse, and support is so low in most applications that it’s bad. but google forces what it wants, so that means when it can give you a webp, it will to encourage adoption.
there are cases where alternative file formats can really be better: matroska, for example. webp is not better, however.
Why isn’t it better? I thought it does lossless compression much better, no?