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On May 4, 2025, at 10:34 AM, Budd Turner wrote:

Several updates ago, I noticed Safari "Tracker blocking" statistics.
I thought it was interesting and would check it every time I launched.
I noticed it was always between some number between 80 - 100.
A recent Safari update increased the statistics had doubled…but that statistic is now twice what that 80-100 range it used to be.
Is it really valid?

It’s hard to say. But I have over half a dozen browsers installed on my machine so that I can keep track of which currently seems to be the best. While several of them block trackers, none of them are reporting such outlandish numbers.

Frankly, while I believe that Apple is making a stab at security with Safari, I don’t believe that they are as motivated in that regard as some third party browsers that hang their hat on security. I always keep coming back to the Brave browser. It’s just a nicer Web browsing experience, and they seem to be all-in on security.

Have a look at:



Note that Brave is the top recommendation for security, and Safari doesn’t even rate a recommendation.


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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice

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On May 9, 2025, at 7:00 AM, Budd Turner via groups.io <n7eoj@...> wrote:

As with different browsers, differences in functions & abilities, located under different names, in different locations.

Here are some settings that I suspect that you really want to make sure are enabled for Brave (on your Macintosh):

Brave menu —> Preferences —> Permissions —> Notifications —> set Don’t Allow Sites To Send Notifications

Brave menu —> Preferences —> Content —> set Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects

These are valuable security settings. Since Brave offers them, you might as well take advantage of them.

I was surprised to receive security alert emails, advising a stranger with a Chrome browser had logged in.

Brave is essentially the Chrome codebase, with all of Google’s spyware stripped out, and all sorts of nice security features added.

The advantage of this is that Web services that require Chrome, such as Google Earth, work fine with Brave. Most Web sites identify Brave as being Chrome. You can also download and use any of the many free Chrome extensions available if you want to. I highly recommend one of the very nice “skins” available, to make Brave look as nice as you’d like it to, and to make it your own.

Once you get used to Chrome, please let us know how you like it!


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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice

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