Safari browser

[RelentlessOnanism]

Is anyone else having problems accessing Literotica using a Safari browser? A couple of days ago I stopped being able to access the main Literotica site or the discussion forum on my iPad using Safari.

I can access everything on a Google Chrome browser, without any issues, but Literotica doesn’t seem to like Safari at all.

 

[CNY_guy]

I've been having the same problem.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

I use Safari exclusively, and I'm not having a problem with access. Sorry, but I have to ask the obligatory question: have you cleared your history and cache?

 

[ToPleaseHim]

I also use Safari exclusively to access Lit and haven’t had problems accessing the stories or the forum.

 

[icenine099]

I think the problem is with Private Relay. If you turn that off, Safari should work. Or just use Chrome....

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

I use Safari exclusively, and I'm not having a problem with access. Sorry, but I have to ask the obligatory question: have you cleared your history and cache?

No, but I don't really want to clear my browser history. It's an inconvenience, to be honest. Earlier today, I could access Literotica through Safari, but now I can't.

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

I think the problem is with Private Relay. If you turn that off, Safari should work. Or just use Chrome....

Yes, that did work, but what's the benefit of having private relay switched on?

 

[SugarStorm]

Yes, that did work, but what's the benefit of having private relay switched on?

Apple's Private Relay is about privacy and anti-tracking, made available for Apple products and software, and can be enabled with virtually zero effort from your side.

As with most Apple solutions, its simplicity is what makes it good, but it comes with caveats - like websites not working properly.

 

[caleb35]

I wasn’t having any problems with accessing the site via Safari until the other day on my iPhone. Now Safari on my iPad won’t load the site. Google on iPad seems to work. Don’t know of the problem is on Apple’s side or the website. EDIT: and yes, disabling Private Relay did the trick.

 

[Britva415]

No, but I don't really want to clear my browser history. It's an inconvenience, to be honest. Earlier today, I could access Literotica through Safari, but now I can't.

History shouldn’t matter. One can keep that.

But if you know, or can find/figure out, how to delete the site-specific cookies for Literotica, that would probably help.

Like your history, some of your cookies will be valuable and worth keeping. No need to go nuclear and wipe out them all. There is a way to delete only the Literotica ones. And it should be enough.

 

[klturi421]

The issue is absolutely to do with Apple Private relay.

 

[Obeylily]

i never use safari for mine,instead i use external browser

 

[Adam_Sephenson]

No, but I don't really want to clear my browser history. It's an inconvenience, to be honest. Earlier today, I could access Literotica through Safari, but now I can't.

been having this problem as well. It only seemed to be a big problem after the site update. (plus I heard there IS a literotica app, but that's only available for android?)

will try and do that private relay trick everyone here is suggesting. it's depressing that the site is somewhat available for an hour or two at a time, then goes back into "I refuse to access this!" mode for about half the day lol.

 

[Adam_Sephenson]

yup, worked the moment I hit "off" never seen lit load so fast on my iphone before XD

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

yup, worked the moment I hit "off" never seen lit load so fast on my iphone before XD

I'm sort of reluctant to switch 'private relay' off. Isn't it protecting me from something?

 

[Adam_Sephenson]

I'm sort of reluctant to switch 'private relay' off. Isn't it protecting me from something?

From what I've gathered, it's like a miniature version of a VPN, but without all the benefits of an actual VPN. (having it on is only masking your IP. I only disable it to access the lit site and then reactivate it when I'm finished.)

 

[mating_in_captivity]

This is definitely caused by Apple Private Relay. But, the details are a bit sketchy.

First off, Apple Private Relay (APR) is better than VPN. With VPN, your VPN provider gets to see all the URLS that you visit, they know not only that you visit literotica but which stories you read - not that most of us care. APR encrypts your requested URL and sends it to a server that hides your IP address and sends it to a second server. That first server can't tell which web pages you read. The second server has the key to decrypt the URL and pass it along to Literotica, but it only knows to hand the encrypted reply back to the first server, it doesn't know who or where you are. This guarantees that none o the websites that you visit can use IP information to track your browsing - mind you they can still track the heck out of you if you don't very carefully damage cookies - but the expectation is that you already did that and that's why all of the sites had to learn to track you by IP.

You may notice that the description of APR says that it encrypts your data flowing between you and the site you are visiting. This isn't the cause of the problem - Literotica already uses https which encrypts the actual traffic. What APR is doing is encrypting some of the address information on some hops of the interaction - but that's not visible to Literotica, they can't use that to know we're using APR.

You may also know that some people use VPNs to pretend they are somewhere else. Say you have a Netflix subscription that's only good in the USA and you are traveling to a foreign country and want to watch a movie. A VPN in the US can make you look like you are in the US so you can watch the movie. And, there's no way around it, APR definitely gives you an IP address that is NOT your home or wherever you are, that's the whole point. But, APR, if on default settings, does give you an IP that's in the same part of the country as you. I look at mine sometimes and it's never more than 20 or 30 miles off from where I actually am. I can imagine that Literotica is blocked in some countries - but APT won't make you look like you are in a blocked country.

But, this IP address masking also causes IP address consolidation - if hundreds of us in a given geographic area as all using APR, we appear to all be using it from the same IP address - the address of that second server. And, I'm sure that Literotica has controls to prevent one IP from accessing too many pages as, in the days before APR, that was probably a server harvesting all of those pages in order to host them on a competing site.

tl;dr - turning off Apple Private Relay will allow you to browse Literotica. I do not know of any other solution. When you turn of APR, you can let to know that you just want it off until tomorrow and, of course, you can always turn it back on as soon as you are done reading Lit.

 

[DavidTasmania]

I think the problem is with Private Relay. If you turn that off, Safari should work. Or just use Chrome....

That fixed it.