Safari wants to download docs on webpage with embedded podcasts

[mschreijen]

Plan

Free 

Country

Netherlands

Device

Macbook Pro Safari 16.2 

Operating System

Moc OS X Ventura 13.1

My Question or Issue

On a website where I use iframes to embed the podcasts on Spotify when opening the page Safari wants me to allow Downloads on the page. If I dont allow, no podcast can be played. When allowing downloads empty downloads are downloaded with the filename of the Spotify ID. This behaviour has not occurred before. I testes on Firefox and there are no downloads and the page works just fine.

This is the webpage: https://courageousteaming.com/ct-podcasts/

Gr. Marco Schreijen

[CrewsZen]

I've experienced the same issue.  Spotify - when will this be fixed? 

[emitdfatt]

I see your site works now with no files downloading in Safari. How did you fit it?

[emitdfatt]

I see your site works now with no files downloading in Safari. How did you fit it?

[mschreijen]

Hi, yes…Because there were too many podcasts from past 3 years so I decided to make archive pages per year. When I did the first year I saw that the number of embedded podcasts was under 15 and then no download happened. So I used this workaround to split everything up into pages with max 15 embeds!

[emitdfatt]

Thanks! I'll try that.

[eugenioelz]

I have the same issue even though I only have 10 embeds... https://collectiveacademy.com/content/ Did anyone found another work around?

[spotifyjosh]

Hi @eugenioelz,

Sorry to hear you have been having this problem with Embeds. Would it be possible for you to tell us which version of Safari that you are using? Are you seeing this behavior on mobile devices or on a desktop computer?

[iroth]

I am seeing the same issue in the following environments:
1) iOS - both on Safari 16.4 and 16.2 and Chrome 111.
2) Safari 16.3 on Mac
No issues on Windows and Mac Chrome.

[allthebrians]

I'm experiencing the same issue with my homepage — it either prompts to download the empty spotify ID filename on mobile - both safari and chrome - or autodownloads those files on desktop safari on mac (doesn't do it on desktop chrome). This comes across as pretty spammy/potentially malicious to users visiting the site: allthebrians.com (luckily it's a silly site)

[spotifyjosh]

Thanks again for writing up these bug reports, everyone. I think we have learnt more about what might be causing the problem. Could you test lazy loading the Embed iFrames to see if that helps? Lazy loading can be enabled by adding the loading="lazy" attribute to the iFrame element.