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photonlight
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2 years ago

How are the icons downloaded?

Hi! After searching for information about that, I found, that the icons are downloaded via 1password caching servers, though I might be wrong here. Why not to download them directly? Also, are the...
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1P_Dave
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2 years ago

Hello photonlight! 👋

1Password maintains our own database of high quality rich icons which are served using two different cache servers as described here: About rich icons and your privacy

Also, are the urls of private websites, like the ones behind vpns in the companies also go to your servers to try to download icons?

The cache server receives the following:

  • the originating IP address
  • the domain or software license being requested
  • and the user agent

The request only goes to our servers if the cache server doesn’t have a particular icon. We remove all information about the request aside from domain or software license title so that we can know what icons to add in the future.

If you'd like to turn off rich icons then you can find instructions here. I hope that helps. 🙂

-Dave