This is completely unnecessary and not particularly helpful, since it’s unlikely anyone is going to change what they’re looking for based on some number of trackers that are being blocked anyway, and the Privacy Report feature of Safari will inform you of this data as well. The Trackers Preview injects the Tracker Wheel into search results, so when you’re googling or DuckDuckGoing (Ducking? Going?), the search result pages are forced to load this extraneous data to show next to the URL. Redundant feature, slow performance, unnecessary. The Tracker Wheel seems to serve no functional purpose other than to let you know how many trackers exist on a website, something Safari already does with Privacy Report.
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How to Fix Slow Ghostery Performance in Safari for Macĭisabling some useless and redundant ‘features’ in the Ghostery content blocker resolved the performance issue in Safari, here’s where:
Turning those off immediately returned performance to where it should be in Safari with a functional content blocker. The culprit? Some new settings in Ghostery that appeared after updating the extension. It was as if my speedy M1 Mac with the latest macOS Monterey build had become an old beige box Pentium II struggling to run a bloated Internet Explorer on Windows XP – the CPU was pegged and grinding to a halt when any webpage was loading, the beachball from unresponsive pages, and searching the web was suddenly uselessly slow – something was clearly amiss. But after updating Ghostery recently on a Mac, I noticed a serious performance hit to Safari browsing, and suddenly Safari was working at a snails pace.