
Shut Up: Comment Blocker 9+
Hides online comment sections
Richard Romero
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- Free
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Description
Shut Up spares you the opinions of troglodytes by hiding comment sections when browsing the web in Safari. You can also set your favorite websites to show comments by default.
That's it. Simple and free. Enjoy!
Uses shutup.css by Steven Frank, with permission.
https://github.com/panicsteve/shutup-css
NOTE: This version of Shut Up is for the Safari web browser. Shut Up is available for all popular browsers. Check https://rickyromero.com/shutup/ to see the list and get the right version.
What’s New
Version 4.0
This release is chock full of refinements contributed by Toni Förster. Thank you Toni!
• Reduced the app’s filesize by 68%.
• Added the ability to directly edit the allowlist table with Cut, Copy, and Paste, along with a context menu for doing the same.
• Made Shut Up Helper’s toolbar button respond faster on Macs with Apple Silicon.
• Inverted Shut Up Helper’s toolbar icon state. Its icon now matches the current comment-blocking status instead of its future state. Please give it a week and I’m sure you’ll get used to it.
• Added a German translation.
• Potentially fixed an issue that caused Shut Up to randomly need resetting.
• Added more info about the most recent stylesheet update.
• Made the label for Safari’s page context menu reflect Shut Up’s current status. (requires a recent macOS release)
• Changed most alert windows to use modal overlays within the main Shut Up window.
• Hid the label underneath the Remember where I show comments checkbox when unchecked.
• Disabled the Update Stylesheet button and menu item if it was updated only a few seconds ago.
• Added more debugging info to the email composed when selecting Help › Contact Developer.
• Fixed a display bug when pasting multiline text in the Add Domain text field.
• Fixed a subtle visual bug in the setup flow.
• Updated outdated terminology in some dialog boxes.
• Removed a superfluous menu item under the Help menu.
This update requires macOS 12.4 (Monterey) or newer.
Ratings and Reviews
Great concept, great app, one small thing
Super useful in that it prevents me from the odd compulsion to waste time reading the opinions of strangers.
However, I’ll sometimes want to deliberately check a site with a discussion thread on my phone and, after allowing it, I’ll delete the site from my “exception” list but comments still show up. Usually I have to uninstall and reinstall the app. Not quite sure why this happens.
Developer Response ,
There are a couple ways around this:
1. If you tap the "aA" icon in the toolbar next to the URL in Safari, there's an option that says "Turn off Content Blockers." That will reload the page without any blockers applied. The next page you load will turn them back on again.
2. When removing the site from the exception list, you should be able to reload the URL in Safari and the comments should be blocked again. The changes can only take effect when you reload the page.
Thanks for the review, hope this helps.
Exactly what I needed.
Downloaded, turned on in settings, checked a few sites on Safari, and I cannot see ANY comments. Goodbye toxic internet people, hello peace and safe browsing. I don’t know why things like this are not more popular, but I guess more people feed into the poisonous online community than just going online for education and keeping up to date on things. We really should be able to turn comments on and off on all platforms and apps, I’m hoping one day we can.
Needs another update
This app usually works how I want to, but it no longer works on YouTube’s new mobile interface that appears to have given its comments section its own tab. (However, it works just fine when I switch to desktop mode.)
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Richard Romero
- Size
- 4.7 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © 2010 - 2025 Ricky Romero
- Price
- Free