15th December, 2025: the Bill of Rights.
Right … it’s official: it’s Monday.
And?
I’m up late!
I’m usually up early on a Monday: as that’s the usual day for my weight management meetings.
However, it’s off until January 5th: over the Christmas holiday.
I won’t know how my weight’s going for the festivities … but at least I get to sleep in!
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Ever since a recent update, I’ve been having problems with Safari: my default browser.
Due to the updated version logging me out of everything — and I do mean everything! — after I’ve started my Mac, up.
It’s a frustrating thing to have happen: as it adds about half an hour’s work to my morning.
And seemed to be something that the usual solution — clearing caches, history, cookies, or all three! — seemed not to solve.
I didn’t think of re-trying in Safe Mode: although I doubt that would have worked.
But did think of checking on Apple’s Community Support forums.
With not a lot of luck!
Such a lack or luck that I eventually gave in … and contacted Apple’s web-chat based support system.
It turned out that I needed to untick the ‘Prevent cross-site tracking’ options in Safari>Settings>Privacy.
Cross site tracking, so you know, involves a website leaving what’s called a cookie on your system: so that frequently used information can be reloaded, easily, when you re-visit a website.
It allows third parties to track what you’re doing: which can lead to privacy concerns.
But it also allows you to sign into sites more easily, speed up web-browsing and … well, not have a mess when trying to write a blog post!
What sort of badness could come of this?
I don’t know.
But the problem’s solved for now.
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