Safari: Certain websites won't load after Ventura

[larryglickman]

Same here. Something changed in the way that Safari routes the webpages, at least with my ISP. The issue is present since Safari 15 was launched, and also affected Mac OS Catalina. The same websites load in Firefox and Chrome with no issues.


Enabling Icloud Private Relay fixes it for me, as does enabling a VPN.

I am on a 2021 MB Pro / M1 pro with Monterey. I have found that Pop up blockers and content blockers intermittently get turned on for websites I've visited in the past with no issues. Allowing pop ups and turning off content blockers fixes my "stalling" issue.

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I am on Telenet, Belgium and I haven't found any issues to load the website espn.com with Ventura.

 

[ajgraham]

Have just ran into the same issue after upgrading to Ventura 13.0 a couple of days ago and tearing my hair out trying to troubleshoot. I'm a web developer so I could see the errors in the browser console but didn't know what was the root cause, other than I was suddenly having problems across multiple websites immediately after upgrading. Firefox was completely unaffected.

The biggest issue I saw was that Google Captchas were not loading at all which meant that any form that used them, whether it be registration, login, and even many newsletter signup forms would no longer validate and thus no longer submit. The worst example I saw was a website which had a newsletter signup in the website footer with a Captcha and because of this the javascript on every webpage was broken as it was waiting for the Captcha to load which would never happen. Toggling the "Hide my IP address from trackers" would get the Captcha to appear and the webpage to function as normal.

I did clear my browser cache which seemed to have no affect. I also "Enabled Intelligent Tracking Prevention Debug Mode" but this didn't seem to give any clues or warnings.

Given how widely used Google Captchas are, and "Hide my IP address from trackers" is enabled by default, there is a bug somewhere which is only affecting a few of us for some reason. I don't know what that is. Perhaps cookie related for previously visited websites which then are causing an issue after the OS upgrade?

Hopefully this can help someone else out or find the route cause.

 

[B/D]

Still having this issue... which exists since Safari 15 was launched!. The only way to make this websites load under Safari is to enable Icloud Private Relay or an VPN. This happens for me on both IOS and Mac OS. The affected websites load perfectly in Firefox and Chrome.

Go figure!.

 

[svenmany]

Still having this issue... which exists since Safari 15 was launched!. The only way to make this websites load under Safari is to enable Icloud Private Relay or an VPN. This happens for me on both IOS and Mac OS. The affected websites load perfectly in Firefox and Chrome.

Go figure!.

I think it's DNS in this case. Firefox and Chrome are probably using their own secure DNS (unless you've changed that in their settings). Also, when you connect to a VPN, you usually use that providers DNS server.

There is another recent thread that is probably related. In that thread clearing the DNS cache seemed to help. In a terminal run

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

You'll find many references to this on the web, so it's pretty safe.