Ensure reloading of favicons
Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local development) a favicon of another project you worked on recently.
Though, you can force your browser to really reload the favicon using some kind of additional version parameter string like this:
= favicon_link_tag("/favicon.ico?v=2")
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