It’s not just the favicon that it is doing it to. If you search for any images like “logo.gif”, it has been changed as well.
<img src="https://www.ezrapenland.com/wp-content/themes/notesil/i/logo.gif?26980" alt="icon" class="blog-icon" />
I’m trying to find out why it is happening to all images so that I can try to prevent it from happening to ico’s.
Here is a site gossip site that I visit regularly that I noticed has the same problem: https://www.thesuperficial.com/