Already 1 billion other ways to track you, altho curious if this works for Tor. Prob not since not included, heh
Wow. I remember when this little ditty was researched as a possible tracking method stretching way back on Windows 98. Guess when they exhausted all their ideas with the current Windows version they can always backtrack archives of older versions to implement to their likings.
FF hardening has been considering this "problem" for a long time. In fact the Arkenfox.js to the line 602 has a section devoted to it: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js Code: /** FAVICONS ***/ /* 1030: disable favicons in shortcuts * URL shortcuts use a cached randomly named .ico file which is stored in your * profile/shortcutCache directory. The .ico remains after the shortcut is deleted. * If set to false then the shortcuts use a generic Firefox icon ***/ user_pref("browser.shell.shortcutFavicons", false); /* 1031: disable favicons in history and bookmarks * Stored as data blobs in favicons.sqlite, these don't reveal anything that your * actual history (and bookmarks) already do. Your history is more detailed, so * control that instead; e.g. disable history, clear history on close, use PB mode * [NOTE] favicons.sqlite is sanitized on Firefox close, not in-session ***/ // user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false); /* 1032: disable favicons in web notifications ***/ // user_pref("alerts.showFavicons", false); // [DEFAULT: false]
Favicon tracking is already partially addressed in Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List for uBO and ABP: Code: ! favicon tracking /favicon.ico$image,third-party,domain=~apple.com|~douban.com|~bahn.de|~winfuture.de|~bt.com|~ebay.com.au|~ebay.com|~ebay.co.uk|~go.com|~github.com|~microsoft.com|~stackexchange.com|~stackoverflow.com|~askubuntu.com|~reddit.com|~4chan.org|~twitter.com|~live.com|~espn.com|~yahoo.com
