I remember a time when this site didn't take the most uncharitable reading of everything all the time.

And yes. Making a streaming application. The CDN that the media is provided through uses cookies to coordinate "side band" metadata. On Safari, there's no way to get at the metadata due to the cookie policy. So, you get the media, but literally no metadata or features associated with it. It's a worse experience for any Safari user and doesn't actually enhance their privacy in any way whatsoever.

The workaround was to get the streaming provider to allow the correlation ID that would normally be conveyed through a cookie to be conveyed through URL parameters instead.

So.. to the extent that I could track you between two sessions, the workaround means I still can. Not that I need to track you, but because I need to correlate two streams between two different servers onto one device.