StopTheMadness Pro 4+
Take back your web browser
Jeff Johnson
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- $14.99
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Description
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. With a huge number of unique features, StopTheMadness Pro is one of a kind! Made by indie developer Jeff Johnson. The support link has documentation and my email address. StopTheMadness Pro includes extensions for Safari, Safari web apps, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS, as well as Safari on iOS and iPadOS.
StopTheMadness Pro is a major update to StopTheMadness. Previous purchasers of StopTheMadness can get a discounted upgrade through the StopTheMadness Pro app bundle.
What's new in StopTheMadness Pro:
• Universal Purchase for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Automatic iCloud sync of settings between all devices
• Platform-specific settings, so you can have different settings on iPhone, iPad, or Mac while still using iCloud sync
• Presets: Easily assign the same specific website options to multiple websites
• Customize the list of query tracking parameters automatically removed from URLs, including URL domain-specific removal
• Run custom JavaScript snippets at any time
• Set custom cookies on websites
• Stop web animations
• Stop websites from overwriting your system clipboard
• Automatically select YouTube video subtitles
• Automatically toggle off the YouTube autoplay button
• Add your own private comments to website options
• Temporarily disable the extension just on the current page
• Hide Page Elements: New global list separate from the custom CSS option, so you can hide web page elements without creating new website options
• Contextual menu item for Hide Page Elements
• Copy Link URL and Copy Link Title use the document URL and title if you're not hovering over a link
• New option to open URLs in a non-private window in Web Rules and Tab Rules
• Hide "We'd like to send you some notifications" banners on many websites
• 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
• Many other improvements
Of course StopTheMadness Pro still includes the features that made StopTheMadness famous:
• Stop websites from disabling user interface features in Safari such as text selection, copy, cut, and paste, drag and drop, contextual menus, AutoFill, ⌘-key keyboard shortcuts, and ⌘-click to open links in a new tab
• 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
• Auto-skip YouTube video ads
• Auto-select YouTube video quality
• Auto-select video playback speed
• Hide "Sign in with Google" on all websites
• Font substitution on websites
• Website-specific CSS and JavaScript
• 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 and use the contextual menu
• Automatically open clicked links in other apps
• Contextual menu item to copy link titles
• Keyboard shortcuts to copy link titles, link URLs, and open links in other apps
• And many more features!
What’s New
Version 20.2
Hide YouTube Shorts: Fixed in YouTube search results
Ratings and Reviews
Outstanding product & support
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.
Nice tool for taking back control
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.
Great except element blocking.
Seriously love stop all audio and video playing automatically. I cannot commend you enough for this feature as I personally find it extremely annoying that everywhere you go videos play automatically regardless if you press play or not. Looking at you IMDb.
However the element blocking needs an extreme overhaul. For one don’t ever know which item to choose after bring up the menu on tap to block an element. For two it seems to work but then never does. From news sites banners to Google news nav bar at the bottom and top; always reappear after setting STM to block it. Using Adguard plus to block the elements ALWAYS works so for now that’s my solution.
Developer Response ,
Please email support with any issues: stopthemadness@underpassapp.com
App Privacy
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
Information
- Seller
- Jeff Johnson
- Size
- 4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Jeffrey Johnson
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.