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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

@… Point taken, my comment about it being the stylesheet wasn't necessarily meant to be technically accurate.
Here's a fun comparison, desktop Safari vs. the Simulator. *Something* is different about Safari running on iOS it would seem.

The “incredibly great” #Apple Safari is not scrolling on NY Times Wirecutter pages.

today's rabbithole: scroll shadows with just css.
- background-attachment - well-established hack, works ok, but tricky to do in some layouts (eg sticky footer)
- container query scroll-state stuck - chrome only for now and kinda buggy
- scroll animation - works ok in chrome and safari. not yet firefox without flag. awkward if you want a smooth fade at a particular closeness.
leaning toward scroll animation, because it feels like the most natural way to express it

@… safari is out on safari

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
https://old.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/pmu979/possible_to_have_keyword_shortcuts_like_firefox/
https://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
The Breeders:
🎵 Safari
#TheBreeders
https://thebreeders.bandcamp.com/album/safari
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JgQE933VpnlCI0gmM6oTO

Google Chrome: Schnellerer Wechsel von Safari auf dem iPhone
Auf Mac und PC kennt man das Feature: Mit einem Klick werden Browser-Infos übernommen. Google setzt das nun auch auf dem iPhone um.
https://www.

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

Ukraine update: Asymmetrical advantage as Russians sit in protected bunkers and hunt unarmed civilians hundreds of kilometers away. These are not soldiers, they are monsters on a murderous safari.
Giorgio risks his life to report these and other truths from the trenches of democracy. Please share the friend link to bypass the paywall.
Support Ukraine, and support true journalism, so the world might get a glimpse of the truth:

In the Kherson Kill Zone, Six Hundred Meters Far From the Russians
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Flashback. I found a reminder of my July 2014 plan for a three-year transition away from Mac OS X.
From an October 2014 post:
― a screenshot of Apple bullshit in its revised Human Interface Guidelines.
＂… Safari … displays webpage titles in the URL bar …＂
#Apple #Safari

Apple bastelt an KI-Browser – Projektstatus unklar
Apples macOS-, iPadOS- und iOS-Browser Safari hat keine nennenswerten KI-Funktionen. Intern soll es laut einem Bericht aber ein Projekt geben.
https://www.

@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keyword-search/id1558453954 seems to work well in Safari Version 18.6 (20621.3.11.11.3)

Meshtastic-safari, finns lite noder i Gävle ändå #meshtastic

Spent the day figuring out how to create macOS "web apps" from the command line (like old-school Fluid site-specific browsers, SSBs - accessed via the "Add to Dock" button in Safari.)
Here, have my shat-out half-AI-written script for this, since I couldn't find anybody else having done this after scouring the internet high and low:

System/Scripts/create-safari-webapp.swift at main · ELLIOTTCABLE/System
dotfiles, handy scripts, and new-system configuration stuff - ELLIOTTCABLE/System

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.
✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

Safari-Browsen mit ProMotion: Auf iPhone, Mac & Co. zunächst deaktiviert
Teurere Apple-Geräte beherrschen schon seit Jahren höhere Refresh-Raten. In Safari sind die aber standardmäßig inaktiv. Die Umschaltung ist aber einfach.

Morning Glory
(Somewhere in southern Bavaria, whilst on a beautiful, but freezing early morning photo safari two years ago...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Safari? More like Beachball.

It has been 19 years since the launch of Firebug v1.0.
It’s hard to overstate how critical this Firefox extension was. Before 2007, tooling was scarce. Firebug introduced the DOM inspector, live CSS editing, and the network monitor—features that laid the groundwork for the advanced performance tooling we rely on today in Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Happy Anniversary, Firebug. 🎂

Anyone knows how to achieve this effect in SwiftUI on MacOS 26? The slight shimmer around the tabs (dark and light modes).
These are taken from Safari's tabs:

“I would bet that Google makes more ad revenue from the average iPhone user (who, even if they don’t install a single one of Google’s native iOS apps, probably uses Google Search in Safari) than from the average Android user.” — Daring Fireball
Interesting speculation. I wonder if there’s anyway to find out.
(https://

Did something break safari performance in macOS 26.3? between ChatGPT.com lagging on typing (like, hanging for ~500ms), and now racefans.net hanging for 250ms on scrolls, it feels like something is broken.

macOS 26.4: Verbesserungen für Safari und Batteriemanagement – und eine Warnung
Apple hat in dieser Woche die erste Entwicklerbeta von macOS 26.4 vorgelegt. Die neue Siri fehlt, dafür gibt es andere Verbesserungen – und eine wichtige Info.

You know that Firefox feature where bookmarks could contain a %s in the url somewhere and then the name of the bookmark could be used as a prefix in the address bar to quickly query some website? What's that feature called? Does it exist in Safari?
#askfedi

@… The web interface currently doesn’t load for me in Safari on macOS 26.2. The API seems to work as I can use the Ivory app on my phone just fine.

A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter…

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

Performance-wise, Safari on iOS apparently doesn’t seem to like the over-engineered CSS custom property calculations for fluid type and all the other stuff in my little style mixer. 🙈
But hey, my personal site is my playground, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, I still have not updated my iPhone to v26 because I hate everything I’ve seen about the “Liquid Glass” and Apple still had a v18 update last time around.
But I expect I will be forced to upgrade since Safari with Lockdown Mode on in v18 chokes on almost every page, redrawing a couple of times before giving up. I also see this in a couple of apps which are probably just thin wrappers around Safari WebViews. Turning off lockdown mode for the site ends the problem.

Is it just me? Perhaps because I often have only one or two tabs open - I'm a compulsive tab closer. But the new UI in macOS Safari for handling tabs wastes space, is hard to use, and confuses me constantly about where the URL box is and such. I am unsure why it passed muster at product review time.
Perhaps it works well for others. But even if you always have more than one tab open, it still wastes vertical space.

Still not working from my laptop due to stupid caching (particularly Safari) but can confirm mstdn.chrisalemany.ca is alive! yay.
#selfhost #footiMac

Ok, I’m procrastinating downloading a bunch of vids with yt-dlp and at this point I’m already reaching the tabs limit on this Safari profile
What’d be the best way of downloading a bunch of videos with yt-dlp while still keeping a good control of what failed and what succeeded? (this is basically impossible from its output if you feed it a bunch of links in a single go)
I was wanting a webui I could selfhost and it’d show progress and status for each video it’s downloading (and let me pass custom options to the yt-dlp command, such as filename), but should I just make a script with a for loop for each URL instead?

Oglądam sobie czasem kanały różnych "podróżników" odwiedzających biedne rejony świata i brak zrozumienia i refleksji jest porażający... "Zacofane cywilizacje", "wolniej się rozwijają" to częste i najmniej odrażające z usłyszanych porównań.

Urządzanie sobie "povety safari", żeby wyjrzeć z za swojego płotu, tylko po to, żeby poczuć się lepszym i połechać dumę z tego jaki piękny mamy płot. Bleh, odrażające...

Swoją drogą, polecam Kapuścińskiego.

I am looking for a Safari ad-blocker. Ideally it should work on #macOS, #iOS, #iPadOS.
Please send your recommendations.
\(^-^)/

Exposomics is an important "new" science. As it matures, it will require medical AI and database analyses. Genetics CANNOT be separated from the environment. Genetic expression is inherently environmental.
Here's a short article explaining the Exposome. (Though gods help you if you can't suppress ads and pop-ups. It works fine in Safari's Reader Mode, e.g.)

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Monkey Safari:
🎵 Shelter (Radio-Edit)
#NowPlaying #MonkeySafari
https://monkeysafari.bandcamp.com/album/shelter
https://open.spotify.com/track/02r8lxuLJUuJ5syYnWyFRI

🤔 "Add text-autospace to status content" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37694
From Webkit blog (

Add text-autospace to status content by ahxxm · Pull Request #37694 · mastodon/mastodon
for CJK/Latin mixed-script readability. (or more precisely, non-ideographic letters adjacent to ideographic letters?) A demo from Webkit blog: https://codepen.io/jensimmons/pen/NPWaXxY caniuse

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

iOS-26-Nutzung: Statcounter räumt fehlerhafte Zahlen ein
Apple hat aus Datenschutzgründen am Safari-User-Agent geschraubt. In die Falle tappte der Webanalysedienst Statcounter – und zählte die iOS-26-Nutzung falsch.

This is the only correct action to take when a web site asks you for age verification.
Tell all your friends.

Been trying for 6 days now to complete an upload onto FilmHub. Can't figure out if the ISP/router/safari/content blocker is causing the upload to interrupt every 20min or so. Have to manually restart it every time, and it'll be a miracle if the file isn't corrupted in the end.

I have received only two suggestions.
I can't believe the #macOS community is not using ad-blockers for Safari. https://hachyderm.io/@al3x/116091476392334846

Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
\(^-^)/

Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FML *smdh*
#stripe #checkout #managedPayments #darkMode

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/115650649436754400
WTF how does it make a difference if a Safari tab is on the laptop display versus an external display? Moved the uploading tab to the laptop display, and now it's not being interrupted...?
Ca…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Broken Bells:
🎵 Holding On For Life
#BrokenBells
https://neosafari.bandcamp.com/track/holding-on-for-life-neo-safari-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/757PJjXAgywxrYkdhMkEV9

Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.

@… this is on mobile safari on iOS 18.7.2, if that matters. (I am/was trying to do some back-of-the-napkin math while away from a larger computer.)

OKAY OPEN SAFARI TABS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN IOS BACKUPS WHAT THE FUCK I’M FUCKED

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Leslie Butler:
🎵 Black Impression/Safari In Dub
#LeslieButler