Anyone ever find a solution to this issue? Only happens when a “sponsored” ad is clicked when googling. Is it Safari? I’ve also tried everything I can find on the web.
iPad Pro (5th generation)
What happened when you tried the solution given in the discussion thread ?
ie: said:
"I went to Safari Preferences>General> and noticed that "new windows open with:" was filled in as START PAGE. I changed that to HOMEPAGE and set HOMEPAGE in the next blank to https://www.google.com/
Works like a charm now when I open a new page."
Else:
Have you tried turning off any ad-blockers or Safari extensions you may have installed. Third party (non-Apple) virus-checkers & apps can interfere. Even VPN can cause issues
What happened when you tried the solution given in the discussion thread ?
ie: said:
"I went to Safari Preferences>General> and noticed that "new windows open with:" was filled in as START PAGE. I changed that to HOMEPAGE and set HOMEPAGE in the next blank to https://www.google.com/
Works like a charm now when I open a new page."
Else:
Have you tried turning off any ad-blockers or Safari extensions you may have installed. Third party (non-Apple) virus-checkers & apps can interfere. Even VPN can cause issues
activate the ad blocks
Here’s what’s happening: I google something. The top results are tagged “sponsored ad” if I click one of those, I get the attached. Note in the url bar it says “googleleadservices.com”. I’m guessing that’s the culprit but I see no way of turning that off. I suppose I could use a different search engine…
Wondering if this discussion thread on a similar topic can help:
My servers/safari can’t find server - Apple Community
Nope. I searched and read all the articles I could find (I mentioned I tried everything I could find on the web, including here in apple communities to no avail). Thank you for the link though. I see many many others have this same problem. It’s not random. It only happens when I click a sponsored ad for google leads. If I scroll down in the search results and find that same result that’s NOT an ad, it works fine.
Are you referring to block pop up ads? That’s enabled.
Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found
