Looks like they developed the favicon service for their search engine so they could show favicons in search results.
It actually increases privacy there, DDG already know what domains your search returnedy and the alternative would be fetching favicons directly from websites, leaking information to them before even clicking.
Then they re-used the favicon service for their browser without rechecking the privacy issue and realising that browsers have different privacy needs.
It actually increases privacy there, DDG already know what domains your search returnedy and the alternative would be fetching favicons directly from websites, leaking information to them before even clicking.
Then they re-used the favicon service for their browser without rechecking the privacy issue and realising that browsers have different privacy needs.