15 November 2025

Please Standby

We are experiencing technical difficulties. 
Google Support bites. 

Update (17 NOV 25 MON): We may be back on course. 
Okay, it's later in the day and here's the progress. When I wrote the first part of the update and fixed the embedded video, I was at a Windows workstation. I didn't think the OS would make a difference since I tried two different browsers with the same result (or lack thereof). Thinking maybe the issue had been fixed, I tried it on my Mac when I got home, and same input lag and general unresponsiveness when using Safari. I even tried DuckDuckGo again and had the same issue. Those are my only two browsers as I deleted Chrome some time ago and I don't like Firefox. So, I downloaded Microsoft Edge, which is where I'm currently writing this. So, whatever is going on with Blogger, it's purely a MacOS issue. I guess this is what I get for signing up for betas. 
Now I'm trying out Brave and it's working just fine. What in Hel's Realm is wrong with Safari and DuckDuckGo

Update (18 NOV 25 TUE): So, the problem seems to be that both DuckDuckGo and Safari are built on Apple's WebKit. As for trying this on my iPad, where I've got the same two browsers, there's no issue whatsoever, and WebKit is used there. That leads me to conclude the issue is purely with Mac desktops. Now we simply have to wait for another update to hopefully fix this weirdly specific bug. 

Update (18 NOV 25 TUE): Just did another beta update and now everything is back to normal. Embedding images and videos still doesn't work, but maybe there's another update on the horizon. 

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