search

ibillingsley / HumbleNewTabPage

New tab page extension for Chrome and Firefox
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfgdmpfihlmdekaclngibpjhdebndhdj
MIT License
626 stars 104 forks source link

Favicon caching and Privacy #84

Closed TCB13 closed 4 years ago

TCB13 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Thank you for this great extension that actually makes browsers right. I've a question somehow related to #60.

When does this extension fetch the favicons? Does it access all the bookmarks that are visible every single time I open a new tab? Does it cache them for some time? How does it work?

I don't want to do a request to all those websites everytime a new tab is open because they might use it to for tracking, currently I have the feature disabled but I would like to use it.

Thank you.

ibillingsley commented 4 years ago

Yes it fetches icons for all the visible bookmarks. The browser decides how long to cache them based on the cache headers sent by the server, same as any normal image, typically about 24 hours. Only the domain is sent though, not the full URL.

If it helps I just added DuckDuckGo as an alternative icon provider. https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

TCB13 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the clarification. Maybe this can be added to readme? I trust DuckDuckGo enough to be happy with is as favicon provider.