# Invasion of the Tumblr Favicons

**URL:** <https://forum.newsblur.com/t/invasion-of-the-tumblr-favicons/5460>\
**Category:** problem\
**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/invasion-of-the-tumblr-favicons/5460 "2015-05-11T00:23:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![g3styx](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/g3styx/32/1504_2.png) [@g3styx](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/g3styx)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/invasion-of-the-tumblr-favicons/5460/1 "2015-05-11T00:23:00Z")

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I’ve noticed that favicons for&nbsp;feeds that just have “/rss/” at the end of the address&nbsp;(e.g.&nbsp;[http://1000lifehacks.com/rss](http://1000lifehacks.com/rss "Link http//1000lifehackscom/rss")&nbsp;or&nbsp;[http://blog.newsblur.com/rss](http://blog.newsblur.com/rss "Link http//blognewsblurcom/rss")) are getting pre-empted with the blue Tumblr “t” favicon. Not a huge deal, but a bit annoying nonetheless.

This only seems to be an issue when the feed address is the same as the website address, except appended with “/rss/” i.e.&nbsp;[http://verynicewebsite.net/feed/atom/](http://verynicewebsite.net/feed/atom/ "Link http//verynicewebsitenet/feed/atom/")&nbsp;is fine, but if it were&nbsp;[http://verynicewebsite.net/rss/](http://verynicewebsite.net/rss/ "Link http//verynicewebsitenet/")&nbsp;the favicon would be the blue Tumblr “t” favicon.

I’m on Chrome 42, but I’m seeing the same behavior in Safari and Firefox. Insta-fetching stories doesn’t clear up the icon, nor does parsing the feed or fetching from the website.&nbsp;

Anybody else having this problem?

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**Author:** ![DMack1](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@DMack1](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/DMack1)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/invasion-of-the-tumblr-favicons/5460/2 "2015-05-11T01:22:00Z")

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I’ve noticed that too, just this past week, and just on tumblr feeds. The feeds must have previously had the user’s display picture in a channel\>image element, but I just looked at the rss feed for one of the affected sites, and that element is gone.

We should ask tumblr’s support what’s up.

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**Author:** ![g3styx](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/g3styx/32/1504_2.png) [@g3styx](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/g3styx)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/invasion-of-the-tumblr-favicons/5460/3 "2015-05-11T01:36:00Z")

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Ah, good call DMack, thanks. Didn’t put 2+2 together to realize that it was a Tumblr issue and not a NewsBlur issue.