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[โ€“] postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not forcing anything. Nobody has to opt in.

This is exactly what they did with .webp

[โ€“] neatchee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, I remember that time when the Internet stopped allowing gifs, jpgs, and pngs. Now Firefox crashes whenever it tries to load an image other than a webp because Google made them /s