Your Connection Is Not Private

Hey JuneFields,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! We understand you are running into an alert that says your connection is not private, when attempting to use Safari and Chrome on your Mac. Let's help out, so you can get back to browsing the web.

To get started, we suggest following the steps in this support document: If you can’t open a website in Safari on Mac - Apple Support. If the issue remains, please reply back with responses to the following questions:

-How do you connect your Mac to the internet? i.e. Wi-Fi, Ethernet, VPN, etc. Connect your Mac to the Internet - Apple Support

-Does this alert occur no matter what type of internet connection you are using?

-Does this alert appear for certain websites only? Or, any website you attempt to visit, even Google.com for example?

We look forward to working with you further. Regards.

JuneFields,

Thanks for getting back to us with these additional details. We'll continue with a few more steps that will help isolate the behavior further.

Let's have you boot up into safe mode. It’s a way to start up your Mac so it performs certain checks, repairs, emptying of system cache, and prevents some software from automatically loading: How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support. Once in safe mode, check to see if the same behavior continues with your web browsers. Sometimes safe mode can successfully resolve some issues. With this being said, after testing in safe mode, restart and log in as normal to see if that helps resolve the issue.

If the issue remains, we will have you test a new user account next, to isolate if this is a user-specific issue, or a system-wide issue. Here’s how: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support.

Keep us posted on the outcome.

Thank you.

Usual cause is either not using https to connect to the website, or a problem with the web server configuration and its (lack of) connection security.

In this case, it appears the certificate authority associated with the digital certificate being presented by the website is unrecognized, untrusted, or invalid.

Check with the website maintainer.

JuneFields wrote:

Thanks for your response! Unfortunately I've already tested this and I don't believe it's with one website as it's happening on multiple, which changes when I log out/back in, or restart my computer. But thank you for your help 😊!

If arising with multiple websites, some additional suspects can include add-on anti-malware, add-on anti-virus, add-on cleaner apps, and add-on VPN clients. Some of those can insinuate themselves into network connections, and occasionally with decidedly mixed results. Any of those sorts of apps installed here?