"collecting your browser history just to display a stupid favicon is the most ridiculous excuse I've heard in a long while"
Though I agree the the implementation could be better, they should just check the head and the root for the icon and if not found that's that.
But the possibility of something be used for malicious ends does not entail confirmation of it being used that way.
Just because we have knifes in our kitchen does not make us automatically guilty of stabbing people.
I find it easier to believe that this was actually, if misguided, an attempt to solve a problem rather than a nefarious plots to track users across the web.
Though I agree the the implementation could be better, they should just check the head and the root for the icon and if not found that's that. But the possibility of something be used for malicious ends does not entail confirmation of it being used that way. Just because we have knifes in our kitchen does not make us automatically guilty of stabbing people. I find it easier to believe that this was actually, if misguided, an attempt to solve a problem rather than a nefarious plots to track users across the web.