Default search engine shows wrong favicons

[Miyayes]

Description

When using the default search engine in the omnibar, the favicon is incorrect. For example, a Bing search will show a Domino's Pizza favicon. See here for screenshot and report: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/ja9psf/does_anyone_know_why_the_dominos_pizza_symbol/

See here for another similar report: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/j86y5w/favicon_for_bing_as_default_search_engine_broken/

Expected result

Favicon should correspond to the correct website/search engine.

[underling3311]

How do you have 216 BATS, how long did take you to get that?

[bsclifton]

Guessing this is related to OpenSearch - it might be showing what the last added entry was (instead of the default entry)

[Miyayes]

+1 https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/jf41vr/why_is_the_us_navys_symbol_in_my_address_bar/

[Brave-Matt]

+1 from Community: https://community.brave.com/t/a-icon-appearing-in-url-bar-when-typing/171315/13

[christopherreay]

I have the "very" high interest credit consumer goods company logo showing up whenever I am searching. it's violating my space quite a lot actually.

I switched to Google search engine, and the logo went to Google. switching back to duck duck go, the logo switched back to very

[justinmcgrath]

I don't know if it helps, but I had the same issue and the favicon for duckduckgo.com itself was wrong. "Settings-> Site settings -> All sites -> duckduckgo.com -> Clear & reset" fixed it temporarily. It's not a solution, but maybe that helps sort out the problem.

[christopherreay]

thanks :)

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I don't know if it helps, but I had the same issue and the favicon for duckduckgo.com itself was wrong. "Settings-> Site settings -> All sites -> duckduckgo.com -> Clear & reset" fixed it temporarily. It's not a solution, but maybe that helps sort out the problem.

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[christopherreay]

So this is an issue that sites are able, somehow, to overwrite the favicon logo for duckduckgo.

Is this

1. because duckduckgo are selling that (seems unlikely)
2. because the "invading" site has somehow convinced the browser to use its favicon rather than the correct one (seems about equally unlikely)
3. or because there is no actual favicon for duckduckgo and some random site ends up taking the place?

Any ideas? I want to stress Im very sensitive to have my life invaded by advertising I dont choose to see, and Very is a predatory organisation that is totally at odds with the culture of duckduckgo. I realise this is almost certainly random chance, but it should be reasonably easy to fix. Where we can fix things like this in the world, I think we should. Brave is on board with that as far as I can see :+1

[ghost]

I made one of the original posts on Reddit. Every few weeks the favicon changes. My most recent one on Bing.

I saw this post today on /r/chrome, so it could be an issue in Chromium.