[akersten]

Oh, this is for putting an icon next to search results? Yeah, that changes the calculus considerably. I thought this was about showing the favicon in the browser for a site the user visits (per the issue title).

In that case, yeah, I don't think the icons are necessary to show at all...

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Even if you wanted to implement this, the logic of the service could be directly embedded in the browser as an extension or similar. There’s no reason to depend on a network service for this functionality.

[saalweachter]

I feel like the only user benefit is to see the favicons of sites you are familiar with, so caching those locally after you visit sites is probably good enough.