Setting to disable feed favicons

[HorlogeSkynet]

Hi,

First of all, many thanks for the hard work done maintaining this application 🙇

I wonder whether a simple setting could be implemented to allow users to disable feed favicons injection in DOM ?

The rationale is : it costs a DNS resolution and a TLS connection for each feed to simply download a small .ico or .svg file in many cases (when compact mode is enabled or feed contents do not contain any remote media, the underlying connection is not used for anything else), slowing down browsing and introducing fingerprinting issue (the same DNS resolutions and TLS connections are made each time the application is loaded, modulo browser cache).

As a (very limited) workaround, when feeds are stowed in folders, they can be "collapsed" and "Unread articles" should be the default view, to prevent favicons loading (only the ones from feeds with unread articles would be).

What do you think about a simple switch (that may stay disabled by default if you want) preventing backgroundImage from being sent to clients ?
Such a feature would be a more practical/clean approach regarding what has been tried in #1186.

Thanks for your time ! Bye 👋

[glenux]

Same problem here. Loading favicons make news unusable on slow connections.