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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking in terms of the individual user with a handful of files.

When you look at it from a server point of view with tens of terabytes of images, or as a data center, the picture is very different.

Shaving 5 or 10% off of files is a huge deal. And that's not even taking into account the huge leap in quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

jpeg xl lossless is around 50% smaller than pngs on average, which is a huge difference