I don't agree. I really like DDG - it works good, it is fast and it does not use my personal search for giving me "better ads" or "better search results" that

I don't agree. I really like DDG - it works good, it is fast and it does not use my personal search for giving me "better ads" or "better search results" that put me in a filter bubble. But there is a different issue here at play; because of errors like this the whole DDG brand gets a bad rap - and thats not only bad because of the risk of people losing a google alternative but because it is real easy to exploit situations like this for google-like companies to give an impression that "all this privacy thing is bs, all companies work in a same way". There are a lot of people that are not really sure is this "privacy thing" is worth the inconvinience of swiching to some other search engine/browser/app and situations like this one are not helpful in that regard. Lot of folks are aware of this and are displeased for risking brand confidence of such a visible privacy-concerned company for miniscule gains like performance gains for fetching a favicon for the first time - just fetch the favicon after you display the rest of the page and cache it, maybe dont even try to fech it if the connection is poor - who cares really