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Good reason to not think of Flickr as any sort of photo backup mechanism? I always presumed when you accessed a photo in "original" dimensions, it was the original file uploaded (even if renamed). There's probably some fine print TOS that clearly states otherwise...


They use lossless compression


The article says they used more aggressive compression on thumbnails, and lossless compression on the original JPEGs.




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