Add image.avatarGravatar

[ST-DDT]

Clear and concise description of the problem

Currently there are only very few avatar providers that work reliably.

Suggested solution

Add gravatar support.

Alternative

Stay with the old ones.

Additional context

This allows generating:

• differently sized images
• different file extensions (incompatible with all other options!?)
• different generation styles (identicon, monsterid, wavatar, retro, robohash)

I was unable to find any kind of terms of service for the service.

This may also enable us to replace the image.avatarLegacy set.

[github-actions]

Thank you for your feature proposal.

We marked it as "waiting for user interest" for now to gather some feedback from our community:

• If you would like to see this feature be implemented, please react to the description with an up-vote (:+1:).
• If you have a suggestion or want to point out some special cases that need to be considered, please leave a comment, so we are aware about them.

We would also like to hear about other community members' use cases for the feature to give us a better understanding of their potential implicit or explicit requirements.

We will start the implementation based on:

• the number of votes (:+1:) and comments
• the relevance for the ecosystem
• availability of alternatives and workarounds
• and the complexity of the requested feature

We do this because:

• There are plenty of languages/countries out there and we would like to ensure that every method can cover all or almost all of them.
• Every feature we add to faker has "costs" associated to it:
  • initial costs: design, implementation, reviews, documentation
  • running costs: awareness of the feature itself, more complex module structure, increased bundle size, more work during refactors

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