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Wow, that is some fine ignorance!
Data compression is allaround us in the modern world, often integrated in places we don't see it clearly.
Office documents saved in the OpenXML format (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx for example) are all actually zipfiles, you can use 7zip to explore them, but don't use any important document.
There are multiple types of data compression algorithms, some are far more efficient than normal Zip.
Other types of data compression tools are: gZip, Bzip2, XZ and rar. Facebook even built it's own compression tool, Zstandard.
Of course there is uses for it, did I not say there was?
There is also literally people who would never need to use a zip file. The post also isn’t about automatic ones, it’s about ones manually zipped and unzipped.
Who’s the ignorant one…?