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> Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly

So if you're a privacy browser. Don't. Favicons are not essential. Or, at the very least make them "opt in" and explain it.

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I don't see how this is a privacy violation in any way. The headline is that DDG is tracking the domains you visit, but favicons are loaded for every search result you see unconditional on whether you click them, and DDG already knows what those results are when they serve them to you.

so you use the ddg browser to go direct someplace with a favicon not via ddg search and ...?

This is about their browser, not their search service. Your argument is perfectly valid if it was the the search service at question.

I see. I honestly didn't know they had a browser.

Geez, overreacting.

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