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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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photonlight
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

DNS is an application layer protocol and DNS queries are hidden if used with VPN and a custom DNS, so, it might not be that public. Though yeah, they aren't that secret, at least ISP will know as soon as you disable the vpn. It's just that single point of ... storing the many addresses might be concerning.

As for Keepassxc, tbh I didn't know, that they now use icons.duckduckgo.com as a fallback for the high resolution icons.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/1d00c22244ca34b27b1fef395e087af2eb07846d/src/gui/IconDownloader.cpp

I agree, it's a complicated question, in terms of usability, though personally I'd be fine with low res favicons if there was such an option.

Thanks for such a detailed explanation.