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Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by isoprophlex »

gurgeous wrote: post #2

Also see the gigantic map - https://iconmap.io The blog post is the analysis of the data set, the map is the visualization.

Is the dataset available for download? I couldn't immediately find a download to the dataset in the linked article.

My hands itch to do some dimension reduction on that data and make some nice plots

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by munk-a »

Didn't they miss all the pre-sized icons in their scan as well? For a while Apple encouraged multiple resolution sizes for favicons for... reasons.

I know they additionally missed the directory specific favicons which have always had iffy support (i.e. /index.html => /favicon.ico and /munks-page/index.html => /munks-page/favicon.ico)

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by gurgeous »

Also, we turned up 2,000 domains that redirect to a very shady site called happyfamilymedstore[dot]com. Stuff like avanafill[dot]com, pfzviagra[dot]com, prednisoloneotc[dot]com. These domains made it into the Tranco 100k somehow.

Full list here - https://gist.github.com/gurgeous/bcb3e851087763efe4b2f4b992f...

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by unicornporn »

gurgeous wrote: post #14

Also, we turned up 2,000 domains that redirect to a very shady site called happyfamilymedstore[dot]com. Stuff like avanafill[dot]com, pfzviagra[dot]com, prednisoloneotc[dot]com. These domains made it into the Tranco 100k somehow. Full list here - https://gist.github.com/gurgeous/bcb3e851087763efe4b2f4b992f...

Lately, happyfamilymedstore has mysteriously always been in the top ~ten Google Images results for super niche bicycle parts searches I do. They seem to have ripped an insane amount if images that gets reposted on their domain.

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by tinco »

Not really relevant, but using Go to fetch the data, and then Ruby to process the data is the best. I used this exact set up for a project and it was amazing. Really the sweet spot of use cases for both languages.

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by ryan29 »

> In fact, I recommend that browsers ignore these hints because they are wrong much of the time.

I don't agree. That's the kind of coddling that encourages incompetence. Instead of compensating for others' mistakes, just let their stuff break.

I wonder if Safai on iOS ignores the hints. When I tested, I was surprised to see that pressing the share icon, which holds the option for `Add to Home Screen`, would cause a download of all of the icons listed with `link rel="icon"`.

Favicons are a huge pain to deal with correctly.

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