In my previous post, I’ve hinted there is something in the works for the mobile environment. I wasn’t sure how well it would work. For some contexts, YouTube has a mobile webpage, not a responsive UI like you see on The Mad Tea Party. You can easily catch that by the subdomain, m.youtube., when it automatically redirects mobile users. Now, an argument can be made — I believe this is where Google stands — the best mobile UX for YouTube is on YouTube app. But that’s not always an option, especially when it comes to stopping AI translation.
Tagged Safari
App to Stop YouTube AI-Translation via User script
I had covered this issue before using a dedicated add-on on browsers. While it worked, there were two problems, at least in my opinion: a. it’s a separate app just for one website, b. it’s not available on iOS. Granted, I was not able to find a universal user script that works on both platforms, but tweaking it takes little to no effort as most of the script can be edited by the user.
App to Run Userscripts on iOS Safari
What I like about Firefox and its community-driven open source nature really coincides with a lot of what I like about Python. There are always like-minded people trying to solve a problem that is often too niche for other browsers. Having said all the that, Safari, as a browser platform, lacks that community attention yet. I often found myself trying to find which “slop” is the real extension I am looking for.
How to Convert URL lists to Safari Bookmark
While I was working with Raspberry Pi projects, one notable trend which became prevalent was the web UI open source dockers started offering. With the proper DB, the indexing could not be faster than my handy work from 2000s. What that also meant was I ended up with a list of URLs I would want to keep on Safari.
How to Fix Safari HTTPS Error on Bose Soundbar to Connect to WiFi
Some older IoT devices had quirky ways to connect to WiFi. My Bose Soundbar 700 and several others from era (e.g. label printers) have dedicated web UI that are only for connecting to a home WiFi during initial setup. The solution would have worked, if the modern browsers weren’t mandating HTTPS even on the LAN.
App to Save Website into Single File
It’s been a long holiday week in South Korea, and with long holiday, I had some tinkering to do on all of my browsers. Safari on both macOS and iOS do support ‘read later’ feature with possible options to sync over cloud and save locally. It is a feature handy for short term usage, but with Apple’s “it just works” approach to the feature itself, it lacks reliability needed for long term storage and usage.
How to Stop Prompting Siri on iOS 26 Instead of Safari Tabs
The new redesigned Safari on iOS 26 minimizes the tab bar when the user is not going through the tabs themselves. It doesn’t matter what layout of the tab bar — Safari still minimizes the tab bar to the smallest possible size, much akin to the status bar on the traditional browsers.
Retrieving Old or Deleted Safari Reading List Archives
But frankly, I believe it should be the job of the website itself to keep track of major updates. Leave a note, for instance, if an update went through. If an article or a post has been thrown out, there should be a reasonable background behind why it has been removed. Until then, you can rely on your setups to do it.