StopTheMadness Pro is a web browser extension that stops websites from making your browser harder to use, and it protects your privacy on the web. StopTheMadness Pro is not an ad blocker but rather a one of a kind extension with a huge number of unique features! Made by indie developer Jeff Johnson. The support link has documentation and my email address. StopTheMadness Pro includes extensions for Safari on iOS and iPadOS, Safari, Safari web apps, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS.
StopTheMadness Pro is a major update to the beloved StopTheMadness extension, adding automatic iCloud sync of settings between all devices, as well as countless other new features and improvements.
StopTheMadness Pro features:
• Stop websites from disabling user interface features in your browser such as text selection, copy, cut, and paste, drag and drop, contextual menus, AutoFill, ⌘-key keyboard shortcuts, and 2-finger tap to open links in a new tab
• Stop Google AMP
• Remove URL query tracking parameters automatically
• Stop clickjacking on Google Search, Gmail, Facebook, and DuckDuckGo
• Stop hyperlink auditing (anchor "ping")
• Stop tracking beacons (Navigator.sendBeacon)
• Bypass well-known URL shorteners such as bit.ly, tinyurl, and t.co
• Stop autoplaying audio and video
• Always show Safari's native video controls, including Picture-in-Picture
• Unmute videos automatically on first play
• Auto-select video playback speed
• Stop Safari from pausing audio in background apps such as Apple Music
• Hide "Get the app" banners on Google, Google Maps, DuckDuckGo, IMDb, Quora, Patreon, Reddit, and Tumblr
• Hide "Sign in with Google" on all websites
• Hide "We'd like to send you some notifications" banners on many websites
• Hide elements on web pages with a tap
• Edit the tab URL in a large separate window instead of Safari's small address bar
• Font substitution on websites
• Website-specific CSS and JavaScript
• Run custom JavaScript snippets at any time
• Custom URL redirects
• Stop losing characters in maxlength password fields
• Force links to open in the current tab instead of a new tab, or force links to open in a new tab instead of the current tab
• Force images to the front so you can drag, use the contextual menu, and save
• Stop web animations
• Stop websites from overwriting your system clipboard
• Show the concealed password in password fields
• Stop websites from disabling text replacements in Safari
• Stop websites from changing the cursor and hiding the scrollbar
• Stop the software keyboard from zooming in the web page
• Stop websites from disabling pinch to zoom
• Reload the web page on a timer
• View and edit web page HTML
• And many more!
I dithered for nearly a year over spending $15 on an extension but the ubiquity of autoplay video despite toggling the useless iOS settings that are supposed to stop these intrusions and recent changes at the NYTimes which include pop-up banners pestering me, a multi-decade subscriber, to download the app even though I've stubbornly refused to do so ever since it was introduced in the late 2000s and now an autoscroll-to-top-of-page feature after I finish an article and return to the front page (WHY?), I finally caved and shelled out the cash for Stop The Madness. Indeed, it does! After a bit of fiddling with settings, no more autoplay videos, EVER (looking at you, HuffPost and local TV news sites). No more forcing me back over old territory when I just want to pick up where I left off scrolling down the front page. And no more pop-ups badgering me to download yet another walled-garden app when a single, well-designed, web browser should do the job of multiple apps. Installed together with two of the best ad-blocking extensions along with another which forces recalcitrant websites that ignore my system's dark mode, Stop The Madness provides the finishing touches needed for web browsing that feels like the early glory days of exploring The Web that old-schoolers like me remember (okay, maybe not "glory" but it certainly wasn't as bad in terms of relentless advertising, incessant video, and blatant defiance of user preferences). Thank you, brave and persevering indie developer, for vastly improving the netizen experience!
Outstanding product & support
rdelrossi
Updated: Years ago someone wrote that great software is like a gem that, consistently polished by an expert craftsman, just gets better and better. That’s the story of Stop The Madness. New features, many not even immediately obvious, continue to add extraordinary value to this tool. The developer is incredibly responsive to addressing and removing new web annoyances.A hugely customizable tool for getting your browser to work the way you want it to work. And when I have a question, Jeff Johnson is quick to help out. I suspect I use 20% of Stop The Madness’ capabilities and I’m thrilled all the same. I’m at a trust point now where anything he makes is an instant-buy for me.
Quality of life improvement. Just makes the web easier to use. Less friction.
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Love this app. Have used the classic version previously, and use the browser extension everywhere it's compatible. Dev is very responsive, and regularly updates appBy far my most used feature is probably the copy on hover. Right-clicking for copy isn't a huge inconvenience individually, but when you have to copy long lists of links or especially link titles, it's such a decrease in friction with this app.Has other fantastic features such as hotkey protection (to stop websites stealing your key binds), right-click protection, a basic element viewer for those annoying sticky elements on mobile websites, bringing images to the front of the page for interaction, etc.Most functions of the app can be replicated with userscripts, but this app provides a convenient "toolkit" that seamlessly removes so many little annoyances about the modern "thanks Google/Shopify now web standards are optional and everything is just an ugly, slow javascript animation" web
Nice tool for taking back control
dame wang
Web designers sometimes get aggressive in controlling your use of a site. This app allows you to push back on that behavior and revert to the way a browser ought to work. This is *not* a content blocker, for that you need a separate app.Also look at the same developer's StopTheScript. It is an app you normally don't use but when encountering a site that goes crazy with scripts you can shut them down.Both apps highly recommended.
• Protect text selection and Stop autoplaying audio and video: Fixed an issue on mobile Instagram introduced in StopTheMadness Pro 24.0 where videos could not be started
• Protect text selection: Fixed a YouTube issue where clicking a video could double the speed when text is selected on the page
• Show native video controls: Fixed a hang on hhpanda.st
• Show native video controls and Max volume on first video play: Fixed on Instagram
• Show native video controls and Include loop videos: Fixed a Slack issue where the video container covered clickable buttons and links
• Show native video controls and Include loop videos: Make the transparent video opaque on megamac.com
• Force same-site links into the same tab: Fixed on MSN
• Protect multi-line text editing: The option is now listed in alphabetical order again after the rename from Protect textareas in StopTheMadness Pro 25.4
Version 25.5
The developer, Jeff Johnson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
