Oh geez now even Favicons are the enemy!

[Stardust]

Oh nooooo!! Just not Favicons!!

[Stardust]

@guigirl Yep! I loved Favicons

[TbGbe]

@guigirl Yet another reason to "CLOSE TABS"

[TbGbe]

@guigirl I wasn't referring to your habits

Continuing this theme https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/56820/how-to-manage-too-many-browser-tabs-in-chrome-firefox-brave-and-vivaldi

BTW See also https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/56275/how-to-disable-favicons

[A Former User]

@TbGbe said in Oh geez now even Favicons are the enemy!:

Yet another reason to "CLOSE TABS"

& delete all bookmarks
& clear all history
& remove all web-panels
& have no RSS feeds
& actually, not browse at all…

[TbGbe]

@potmeklecbohdan said in Oh geez now even Favicons are the enemy!:

& delete all bookmarks

That's what search engines are for! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

& clear all history

Regularly :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_closed_eyes:

& remove all web-panels
& have no RSS feeds

Again search engines

& actually, not browse at all…

That works too.

So just a minor issue really

[Stardust]

@guigirl said in Oh geez now even Favicons are the enemy!:

Solution:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/447270

So, the solution is to load Favicons onсe and then block them loading again?

[Stardust]

@guigirl said in Oh geez now even Favicons are the enemy!:

Snapshot [ie, my daily default browser]

of course!

Now, i have to mention this. So far, i simply HATE browsing like this.

Yep! And what about the Vivaldi android version? There is no uBO support yet.
I think, that the real solution lies on the browser (engine) side
We need our Favicons back!

[TbGbe]

@guigirl Well, surely it can't be that difficult for their devs to put a Goggle favicon on every site/bookmark etc?

[Streptococcus]

I have used Mozilla-derived browsers for years, and always blocked favicons. I have gotten used to that, and have no problems. Of course, the handy all-tabs button helps on rare occasions where the tab bar gets really crowded.

[LonM]

One possible solution to this is to use a heuristic. If I visit the same site over and over, then I have enough trust in that site, so it's fine to store a favicon; sites I repeatedly visit have plenty of other, much easier, ways of tracking me.

What I really want to avoid is a "drive by" tracking attempt.

But the more I think about it the less likely it becomes that any given site will actually perform an attack themselves. The concept is very non trivial. If anyone is going to implement it, it will likely be through some kind of external library or service. And from that perspective, existing blocking tools would be enough to hamper any attempts.

Until there is evidence of this being actively exploited in the wild I am not concerned.

[packmei]

It seems not to difficult to track users by the Favicons store, make a user identificable even in cognito mode:
Schneier on Security.

The researchers seems to have contacted all browser builders. As Vivaldi is made for privacy, will it implement the recommendations to mitigate this fingerprinting?

Anybody any idea?

[TbGbe]

@packmei I would expect the "fixes" to be implemented in Chromium which Vivaldi will then inherit.

[npro]

Merge with https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/56853/oh-geez-now-even-favicons-are-the-enemy?page=1 ?

Done, nice