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My understanding is that this was an optional feature, and turned off by default - a user wanting to use this would need to enable it manually. If a user turns
by g_p 4y ago
My understanding is that this was an optional feature, and turned off by default - a user wanting to use this would need to enable it manually.
If a user turns on a feature to request favicons for received mail, it therefore seems logical that the app has to retrieve favicons. Doing direct retrieval is likely less damaging to privacy than using a central favicon retrieval server.
- corney91 4y agoI use FairEmail so I just checked: Display Favicons is disabled by default and there's a note below the setting that says "there might be a privacy risk" and links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon