Ask HN: Why do Chrome and Edge butcher rendering my photo?

5 points

3 years ago

Day to day I use Edge. A while ago there was some drama around it sending the photos you see during browsing to Microsoft for AI “enhancement”[1]. The option to disable this feature was removed[2], so some speculated that the whole feature is removed.

However, I’ve just noticed that one of my photos[3] has crazy artifacts when viewed in Edge, which don't show in Firefox or any native MacOS viewer like Preview or ACDSee (screenshot[4]). The weird thing is I can reproduce the same issue in Chrome (as visible in the screenshot). So I’m wondering if Chrome added a similar “feature” and Edge got it from there again.

(Chrome also lifted the shadows. It's really worrying.)

[1]: <https://www.pcworld.com/article/703854/microsoft-edge-taps-ai-to-make-grainy-images-look-nice-and-crisp-in-your-browser.html>

[2]: <https://techdows.com/2023/06/microsoft-edge-removes-image-enhancement-feature.html>

[3]: <https://yakubin.com/photography/album/gdan%cc%81sk-2023-04/tunnel.html#photo-bg>

[4]: <https://yakubin.com/chrome-vs-firefox-tunnel.png> (The version on the left basically has minecraft on the right wall. The version on the right doesn't. The version on the right is pitch black on the left wall. The version on the left shows red bricks.)

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