Favicon does not change, ans is saved as URI

In my project, I am doing the following
<link rel="icon" href="/static/images/favicon.png" type="image/png">
but when I start the dev server and open page in browser I get this instead in the href attribute
data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACAA
RHf7T5+kcoOj13A0fAeYfXiVAltLHyZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII=

Now this works as the favicon is shown no issue, but then say I change the favicon with another image with same name, then the browser keeps showing the old one no matter what I do (refresh, hard refresh, disable cache, delete entirety of cache ...). What bothers me more is that I have different profiles in my chrome browser, and in all of them it shows the newer version and href is actually as is (/static/images/favicon.png) while only on one it keeps showing that data:image value that points to the old image :))), any ideas friends and Thanks!
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