Why does Google Chrome save a JPG image to WEBP instead?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1541490/...

Question links:
[JPG image]: https://mosaic03.ztat.net/vgs/media/cata...
[as shown here]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/EsvOs.png

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