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Clarify icon service exception
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MGibson1 committed Feb 6, 2025
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### Icons service

The Bitwarden icons service enables the retrieval of site favicons to decorate vault items in the
Bitwarden clients. To enable this functionality, clients do send clear text domain name information
to the Bitwarden icons service. These URIs are normally encrypted in a vault, but we do this to
aggregate access to the requested domain, speed up loading of vaults, and ensure favicons accurately
represent the associated URI. This feature is easily disabled in client settings.
The Bitwarden icons service provides site favicons to decorate vault items in the Bitwarden clients.
To enable this functionality, clients need to send clear text domain name information to the
Bitwarden icons service. Communicated information is limited to vault item URIs matching some simple
structural requirement. These URIs are encrypted in a vault, but we do this to aggregate access to
the requested domain, speed up loading of vaults, and ensure favicons accurately represent the
associated URI. This feature is easily disabled in client settings.

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