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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by snailmailman on Sunday November 16, 2025 @06:48PM (#45949581)
My hacker news icon has been stuck as the icon for a weather site that I sometimes check. It’s been stuck that way for close to a year now, and has survived an iOS update too.

It persists across profiles and into private browsing mode.

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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by mycall on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:25PM (#45950086)
Could site icons be connected somehow to iCloud?
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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by grugagag on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:47PM (#45950175)
To me HN has been stuck as Facebooks icon for a really long time.
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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by 1718627440 on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:25AM (#45952664)
You guys have favicons? I don't have any in my tabs, but maybe I have turned that of at some point. I'm using Mozilla Firefox.
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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by dewey on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:32AM (#45953896)
Firefox and Safari both have favicons in the tabs.
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Re:Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode by 1718627440 on Monday November 17, 2025 @11:03AM (#45954818)
Yes, I also have them in general, e.g. on about:newtab, but for HN, there isn't any shown on the tab (there is if I make a bookmark). Maybe I messed something up.
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