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How to fix Twitter and other websites that won’t load in Safari

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Do you ever find that websites sometimes refuse to load in Safari on your Mac, no matter how long you wait? The problem has been plaguing Twitter users in recent months, and can occur with other sites, too.

Fortunately, there’s an easy fix.

You may have already resorted to using another browser. When this problem surfaces, switching to Chrome or Edge (or anything other than Safari) can be an easy fix. But who wants to swap browsers because one website won’t load?

Another extreme solution is to clear all your Safari data. That’s quick and effective, but it means losing all your open tabs, having to log in to all your favourites sites again, and other little annoyances.

Instead, you can efficiently target only the site that isn’t loading. Here’s how to clear Safari data for just one website when it isn’t loading.

Fix websites that won’t load in Safari

Before following these steps, ensure that the problem really is just with Safari. Obviously, you should make sure your Mac is connected to the internet. Then try loading the problematic site in another browser — maybe on your iPhone or iPad — or checking its status on Downdetector.

If your connection is fine and dandy, and the site loads on another device, follow the steps below to clear its Safari data:

  1. Open Safari.
  2. Click Safari in the menu bar, then click Preferences…
  3. Click Privacy, then select Manage Website Data…
    How to manage website data for Safari
  4. Use the search bar in the top-right corner to find saved data for the website that won’t load.
  5. Select the saved data, then click Remove.
    How to delete website data in Safari
  6. Click Done.

Once that’s finished, you can visit the site again, and it should load without any issues … at least for now. Some users find that the problem reoccurs every few weeks with certain sites, such as Twitter. So you might need to repeat these steps later, unfortunately.

If this fix doesn’t work for you, there could be other things that are preventing the site from loading. If you use a content blocker, ensure that the site you want to visit hasn’t become inadvertently blacklisted, and try restarting Safari.

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Apple to ad industry: Tough luck, privacy comes first

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Advertisers are picking a fight over Safari’s new “intelligent tracking prevention” feature. But the iPhone maker isn’t backing down.

Apple has unequivocally rejected an ad industry request to “rethink” a privacy-protecting browser feature set to arrive this month in the newest version of its Safari web browser.

Six ad industry groups said Thursday that a Safari 11 feature called intelligent tracking prevention breaks existing browser conventions and “will … sabotage the economic model for the internet.” On Friday, Apple issued its response: Forget it. Online ads are violating our privacy, and Apple isn’t going to disable intelligent tracking prevention.

“Ad tracking technology has become so pervasive that it is possible for ad tracking companies to re-create the majority of a person’s web browsing history. This information is collected without permission and is used for ad re-targeting, which is how ads follow people around the internet,” an Apple representative said. “Apple believes that people have a right to privacy.”

Apple software Senior Vice President Craig Federighi announces Safari's intelligent tracking prevention in June 2017 at an Apple conference.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, announces Safari’s intelligent tracking prevention in June. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET

Advertising is the lifeblood of the internet, fueling the immensely successful businesses of Facebook and Google without our having to pay a penny. Online ad spending will grow 17.4 percent to $223.74 billion this year, according to eMarketer, and advertisers are fighting against technology that makes it harder to track your online behavior so ads can be targeted more precisely.

But ads have become a problem, too. On top of the privacy invasion, ads drain phone batteries, use up our monthly data allotment, slow down websites and even sometimes deliver malware used to attack our computers. No wonder browser makers like Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari are pushing back with limits on ads and ad tracking technology.

The advertising groups that banded together to object to Safari’s new feature didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cookie complaint

Their complaint stems from Safari’s new handling of cookies, the small text files that websites can store on your computer. Cookies can help you, for example by remembering your email username for faster login or recording what you’ve placed in a shopping cart. And they can help advertisers by logging websites you’ve visited and whether you clicked on their ads. Safari has long blocked third-party cookies, those placed on a website by a party other than the website publisher, but the six major US ad groups objected to how Apple is handling first-party cookies, too.

Specifically, they don’t like that Safari will automatically delete cookies its software determines are used to track you from one site to another, and they don’t like how it’ll automatically delete first-party cookies from websites you haven’t visited for more than 30 days.

“Apple’s unilateral and heavy-handed approach is bad for consumer choice and bad for the ad-supported online content and services consumers love. Blocking cookies in this manner will drive a wedge between brands and their customers, and it will make advertising more generic and less timely and useful. Put simply, machine-driven cookie choices do not represent user choice; they represent browser-manufacturer choice,” the ad groups said.

If you believe the ad industry has a point, you can disable intelligent tracking prevention in Safari’s settings.

Apple responded that it’s complying with cookie-handling standards and blocking loopholes advertisers used to violate privacy.

Intelligent tracking prevention “does not block ads or interfere with legitimate tracking on the sites that people actually click on and visit. Cookies for sites that you interact with function as designed, and ads placed by web publishers, will appear normally,” Apple said.

Safari 11 arrives Sept. 19 for iPhones and and iPads and Sept. 25 for Macs with the new MacOS High Sierra software.

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Apple Stopping Ad Blockers Outside Of Safari On iOS

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According to a recent report Apple is now stopping ad blockers that are blocking adverts in third party apps in iOS.

It was reported that recently that this is something new that Apple is doing after popular apps like Adblock and Weblock are no longer having their updates approved, Apple has confirmed that this is not something new and you can see a statement from Apple below.

“This is not a new guideline. We have never allowed apps on the App Store that are designed to interfere with the performance or capabilities of other apps.” It also said it would remove other apps that offer features that block advertising in third-party apps if they “may have snuck on to the App Store.” Apple added, “We have always supported advertising as one of the many ways that developers can make money with apps.” said and Apple spokesperson.

So whilst these apps may have been available in the app store for some time, Apple has not changed its policies, rather it has started to enforce these policies which it may have not done before.

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