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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Renaming an extension does not actually modify the contents of the file. Some software that supports webp may look at the contents and recognize it as webp and load it. But that’s not all software.

It’s a bad practice to do that. It’s like changing a .docx to .pdf and expecting it to be fine.