unjustified preferential treatment over jpegxl a format google also had created

They helped create jpegXL but they are not the sole owner like they are with webp. There is a difference.

a better argument might be that chrome protects their own vs a research group in google switzerland, however as other mentioned the security implications of another unsafe binary parser in a browser is hardly worth it

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archerx 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Webp has had major vulnerabilities.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/uncovering-the-hidden-webp-vulne...

	▲	breppp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		which only strengthens my argument, webp seemed like some ad-hoc pet project in chrome, and that ended like most unsafe binary parsers, with critical vulnerabilities