New Mac Mini

Here's an article about Safari and tracking. Prevent cross-site tracking in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

jamesfromlismore wrote:

What puzzles me is that the first time I turned on the new Mac and tried Safari just to see if I had internet acccess it said it had prevented 27 trackers. How could it do that the instant it came online for the first time?

hcsitas did an excellent job summing up the reasons why. Another way to look at this, is every webpage you open, could potentially link to other websites. This is typical for advertisers. If you use an ad-blocker, like Pi-hole, or perform a data capture, using something like Wireshark, you may be surprised on how much of these communications go on in the background. Google is #1 in tracking on the Internet ... and there are plenty of other players out there as well.

It means your browsing is safer and Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and myriad other snoopers selling your browsing data to spammers, advertisers etc. are coming up empty.

Now, isn’t that a good thing?🥂

Good question, could be something to do with iCloud syncing your favorites/email and Apps with embedded web content. Ignore.