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In Safari => Preferences => Security there is the 2nd option from the top "Hide IP address". Right now, it has a pull down with two choices of "from Trackers and Websites" and a 2nd option of "From Trackers Only". In the text, there is a link "Learn more..." which pops you over to System Preferences => Apple ID => iCloud where you see an option (3rd from the top for me) of "Private Relay (Beta)".
It appears to me that if the option in Safari is on and the option in System Preferences is off, your Safari performance sometimes (but not always) goes to pot. It has plagued me for the past few months. Random problems where web sites take forever to load and often fail.
I believe also that the System Preferences option also affects Mail. I saw this because I don't want other content loaded -- ever. If I do, I want to go click a button that says "Load remote content". I've been told (and thus naively believe) that spammers put unique links per email so if the link is used, they know that the email that contained it got to its destination and hence the email is valid and therefor, open the spam flood gates. Of course... all that could be pasta sauce.
I'm not currently ambitious enough to toggle these things through all the different combinations and test what happens but I thought I would post this and see if others agree, disagree, can clarify a bit, etc. Also... it usually take me about an hour to track down where these two options hide and now I can just find this post and it will remind me.
It appears to me that if the option in Safari is on and the option in System Preferences is off, your Safari performance sometimes (but not always) goes to pot. It has plagued me for the past few months. Random problems where web sites take forever to load and often fail.
I believe also that the System Preferences option also affects Mail. I saw this because I don't want other content loaded -- ever. If I do, I want to go click a button that says "Load remote content". I've been told (and thus naively believe) that spammers put unique links per email so if the link is used, they know that the email that contained it got to its destination and hence the email is valid and therefor, open the spam flood gates. Of course... all that could be pasta sauce.
I'm not currently ambitious enough to toggle these things through all the different combinations and test what happens but I thought I would post this and see if others agree, disagree, can clarify a bit, etc. Also... it usually take me about an hour to track down where these two options hide and now I can just find this post and it will remind me.