Unable to fix blurred videos on LinkedIn

I thought LinkedIn started to show naughty video, but no, same problem with Big Sur and Montery, Safari is too old for it !

I uses Chrome just for LinkedIn video...

Videos normal in firefox!

Found this posting, though from the past. Though the same problem is cited with a solution that needs to be implemented by LinkedIn, not the user. In short it states that Safari is failing to process a JavaScript tag correctly. In fact my brief investigation into this using developer mode in Safari, my findings point to this as well.

LinkedIn Safari Video Issue

It's not only the blurred videos on Linkedin.

You also cannot "hear" the name pronunciation voice recording.

Not even when you try to update your own.

What is this with "media in general" on Linkedin???

Under "Safari preferences/Websites/Auto-Play/"

I have set "linkedin.com" to "Never Auto-Play"

which makes the experience a little less annoying.

The advantage of all of this is that you watch less video, and listen more actively to the audio.

So that you listen more attentively to what is being said instead of being distracted by what is being shown.

Now this doesn't work in all cases but if it's an excerpt of for example a podcast. It's really beneficial I believe.

Let me know what you think.

(and in the mean time use Google Chrome to have everything working as it should)

I noticed a big dashboard update to LinkedIn on Monterey 12.7.5 Safari today and got my hopes up...but sadly they didn't bother to fix this video playback bug. Still having to watch videos on Duck Duck Go.

I have received the following from LinkedIN:

Thanks for contacting us about this issue. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We have confirmed the issue and have escalated it to our Technical Escalations and Engineering teams for investigation. At this time, there's no estimate as to how long it might take to resolve. We'll do our best to provide progress updates as they become available. For near real-time information about the availability of LinkedIn's products and services, please visit: http://www.linkedin-status.com

In the meantime, I'll gladly help if you have any other questions.

Monterey 12.7.5 and Safari 17.5

Been experiencing this issue since late 2023.

I have emailed LinkedIn tech support; no replies.

It's definitely a conflict between Monterey, Safari, and the LinkedIn codes...

No, I am running:

MacOS Big Sur 11.7.10

Safari 16.6.1 ...

Same problem for me ...

Let us all spam LinkedIN with support requests ... !! I just sent them one ...

I just updated Monterey to 12.7.4 on a MacBook Air 2017, Safari's now up-to-date as well 17.4 and still this problem is not gone. If I use DuckDuckGo to watch YouTube videos, it plays as per usual, any other site seems to be doing this video thing right EXCEPT Linkedin. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's Linkedin who wants to push people to use a browser other than Safari. I see this a lot in other apps/websites.

However ... Logging in on Linkedin on Safari on iPhone (7 Plus) it shows normally.

Why?!?

For a few months now, all video images on LinkedIn have blurred. Only on Safari (mac Monterey version 12.7.4). The LinkedIn tech team - after several back and forth emails - said it is Apple that is at fault. Not sure, but as the app works on all other devices bar my iMac, maybe it is an Apple problem. Did Monterey come along a few months ago too? Can't recall.

Is there anyone watching these threads from Apple that can venture a suggestion? Beyond saying it's LinkedIn's fault - placing all with error in a loop.

The blurred videos started at some point - it all worked fine earlier. So, either LinkedIN or Apple made changes that causes these problems.

I have 2 different Macs with both Big Sur and Monterey OS ... they both cannot show videos. And of course 2 different versions of Safari ....

It started suddenly - in both OS ... So, it must be some changes made by Apple or LinkedIN ..

It’s frustrating indeed. The strange thing is that with other browsers I don’t have any issues. Neither with LinkedIn app on iPhone. Only with Safari on my MacBook. If, by any chance, I find the solution I will let you know.

Can you post the version of your macOS and Safari, please? I was thinking it would only be a “Monterey” thing. So apparently not the case, is it?

Secondly, if all Mac users with an up-to-date macOS and Safari would experience this annoyance too, this post should have been flooded, wouldn’t you agree?

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I just wanna say that I'm experiencing lots of bugs in many platforms of the big players and however a die-hard Mac fan I am, however I love Safari, I'm also thinking that it's not always the platforms fault but also Apple who wishes us to upgrade and keep the economic engine going.

What dost thou thinkst?

Same issue here, It would be nice to have a simple fix from Linkedin so I can continue paying them to run ads... but its quite hard if I can't see my content. come one #linkedin @linkedin fix the safari video bug!