diff --git a/src/renderer/Window.cpp b/src/renderer/Window.cpp
index 3dff060..92a96df 100644
--- a/src/renderer/Window.cpp
+++ b/src/renderer/Window.cpp
@@ -264,6 +264,12 @@ Window::Window(const string& title, const Settings& settings, VPXWindowId window
       m_pixelDensity = 1.f;
    }
 
+#ifndef __EMSCRIPTEN__
+   // SDL3's Emscripten video backend emulates SDL_SetWindowIcon by pointing
+   // the page's <link rel="icon"> at a blob: URL of the encoded surface -
+   // a reasonable desktop-icon mapping in general, but unwanted here where
+   // the embedding page already has its own favicon. Skip it on this target
+   // rather than fight it from the host page's JS.
    if (auto icon = BaseTexture::CreateFromFile(g_app->m_fileLocator.GetAppPath(FileLocator::AppSubFolder::Assets, "vpinball.png")); icon)
    {
       SDL_Surface* pSurface = icon->ToSDLSurface();
@@ -276,6 +282,7 @@ Window::Window(const string& title, const Settings& settings, VPXWindowId window
    else {
       PLOGE << "Failed to load window icon: " << SDL_GetError();
    }
+#endif
 
    // Check if the platform allows positioning windows (as Wayland forbids it...)
    {