How Apple Breaks Far Too Many Web Sites from Working Properly — “Enable Content Blockers”

2023-08-01 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Apple, Apple Core Rot, Apple macOS, Apple Safari web browser

I don’t know about you, but have all kinds of problems on too many web sites with Safari—they won’t function properly. Until...

The #1 and generally only reason that Apple Safari makes websites not work properly is this well-intentioned but poorly implemented feature: Safari => Settings for <website> => Enable Content Blockers.

It is my suspicion that Apple applies it to all web sites willy-nilly, with no regard for the functional destruction it causes. There are plenty of web sites that use content that is critical to site functionality. The feature needs to “know” which ones those are, at least for the major sites.

So... if you are having trouble getting a web site to work (extremely frustrating!), uncheck that malignant checkbox.

I suspect that the reason so many people use Google Chrome or Firefox is due to Safari not functioning properly on far too many websites because of this default-on Enable Content Blockers.

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