diff --git a/Shared/Favicons/FaviconDownloader.swift b/Shared/Favicons/FaviconDownloader.swift
index 447012cd6..aeb42f960 100644
--- a/Shared/Favicons/FaviconDownloader.swift
+++ b/Shared/Favicons/FaviconDownloader.swift
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 //
 
 import Foundation
+import CoreServices
 import Articles
 import Account
 import RSCore
@@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ final class FaviconDownloader {
 		loadHomePageToFaviconURLCache()
 		loadHomePageURLsWithNoFaviconURLCache()
 
+		FaviconURLFinder.ignoredTypes = [kUTTypeScalableVectorGraphics as String]
+
 		NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(didLoadFavicon(_:)), name: .DidLoadFavicon, object: nil)
 	}
 
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ private extension FaviconDownloader {
 			return
 		}
 
-		FaviconURLFinder.findFaviconURLs(homePageURL) { (faviconURLs) in
+		FaviconURLFinder.findFaviconURLs(with: homePageURL) { (faviconURLs) in
 			var defaultFaviconURL: String? = nil
 
 			if let scheme = url.scheme, let host = url.host {
diff --git a/Shared/Favicons/FaviconURLFinder.swift b/Shared/Favicons/FaviconURLFinder.swift
index 654dd1f3b..0f80b44d8 100644
--- a/Shared/Favicons/FaviconURLFinder.swift
+++ b/Shared/Favicons/FaviconURLFinder.swift
@@ -7,21 +7,63 @@
 //
 
 import Foundation
+import CoreServices
 import RSParser
 
 // The favicon URLs may be specified in the head section of the home page.
 
 struct FaviconURLFinder {
 
-	static func findFaviconURLs(_ homePageURL: String, _ completion: @escaping ([String]?) -> Void) {
+	private static var ignoredMimeTypes = [String]()
+	private static var ignoredExtensions = [String]()
+
+	/// Uniform types to ignore when finding favicon URLs.
+	static var ignoredTypes: [String]? {
+		didSet {
+			guard let ignoredTypes = ignoredTypes else {
+				return
+			}
+
+			for type in ignoredTypes {
+				if let mimeTypes = UTTypeCopyAllTagsWithClass(type as CFString, kUTTagClassMIMEType)?.takeRetainedValue() {
+					ignoredMimeTypes.append(contentsOf: mimeTypes as! [String])
+				}
+				if let extensions = UTTypeCopyAllTagsWithClass(type as CFString, kUTTagClassFilenameExtension)?.takeRetainedValue() {
+					ignoredExtensions.append(contentsOf: extensions as! [String])
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// Finds favicon URLs in a web page.
+	/// - Parameters:
+	///   - homePageURL: The page to search.
+	///   - completion: A closure called when the links have been found.
+	///   - urls: An array of favicon URLs as strings.
+	static func findFaviconURLs(with homePageURL: String, _ completion: @escaping (_ urls:[String]?) -> Void) {
 
 		guard let _ = URL(string: homePageURL) else {
 			completion(nil)
 			return
 		}
 
+		// If the favicon has an explicit type, check that for an ignored type; otherwise, check the file extension.
 		HTMLMetadataDownloader.downloadMetadata(for: homePageURL) { (htmlMetadata) in
-			completion(htmlMetadata?.faviconLinks)
+			let faviconURLs = htmlMetadata?.favicons.filter({ (favicon) -> Bool in
+				if let type = favicon.type {
+					if ignoredMimeTypes.contains(type) {
+						return false
+					}
+				} else {
+					if let url = URL(string: favicon.urlString), ignoredExtensions.contains(url.pathExtension) {
+						return false
+					}
+				}
+
+				return true
+			}).map { $0.urlString }
+
+			completion(faviconURLs)
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/submodules/RSParser b/submodules/RSParser
index 50072e628..80952dabd 160000
--- a/submodules/RSParser
+++ b/submodules/RSParser
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 50072e62800b98c3f9f9cd5b1aae6d5b12c3a58c
+Subproject commit 80952dabda6b49e8fa72d8f4cd703fe09fb56564