Apple dropped support for…

Apple dropped support for “apple-touch-icon-precomposed” and yet Safari will still, 11 years later, make GET requests to /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
even if you specify a different URL in a link tag. Sheer madness. developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html