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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by theandrewbailey on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:43PM (#24111897)
That works until you get crawled by totally broken crawlers that interpret data: URIs as a relative URL. (It's happened to me.)
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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by adventured on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:00PM (#24112095)
Why would that matter though? Crawlers of that low quality are almost guaranteed to be worthless for traffic purposes and should likely just be blocked as incorrectly functioning trash.
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