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by xtracto 1683 days ago
Right, it sounds to me that people are confusing Dithering with Compression. Back in the day we used Dithering to represent high-color-depth images in lower-color-depth devices... it sounds similar to compression but it is not.

It's like confounding stenography with cryptography. In a way, both are used to "hide" a message, but they are completely different beasts.