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What are the advantages in using a remote service for this vs. hosting them yourself? I'm somewhat averse to taking out additional dependencies on other services if no compelling reason exists.

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Everything is cached and served very quickly. The main advantage is you can change the icons on the fly at no additional cost. If you update your interface, add new icons or remove some, you can make those changes in that app and you don't even need to grab a new code snippet.

If you want to serve them yourself, that option is there as well. Thanks!!

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