
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 on macOS and iOS, as well as Chrome and Firefox on macOS.
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
• 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 15.0
• New website option: Force popups into tabs
• Moved "Stop new windows" to Tab Rules
• Renamed "Show new window URL" to "Show stopped window URL" and moved to Tab Rules
• Show stopped window URL: Fixed an issue with the Trusted Types API
• Fixed redirect of mailto: links
• Show native video controls: Improved on target.com
• Show native video controls: Fixed an issue on espn.com where the advertisement and main video could play simultaneously
• Firefox: Fixed a "Native messaging port disconnected" error
Ratings and Reviews
See AllNice 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
Breaks a lot of things
The description is very misleading, no trial option. Based on so many good reviews and online research I decided to pay for the all since there is no trial. Now I know that no trial is a red flag. After I installed it I started having issues with the defaults. The more options I turned off the issues disappeared. Overall is not worth the price just for a limited number of websites. Not even google page opens correctly with this enabled. I was looking for a refund and I followed the instructions to file a claim with Apple. Good luck getting a refund since Apple declined the claim twice and now I need ro dispute the charges. Don't buy this app without a trial to make sure it works for your use scenario and that it actually benefits you because it breaks more things than it claims to resolve.
Developer Response ,
Please contact support. I'm very good at resolving customer issues, if you just reach out for help.
Why do you say "The description is very misleading"? That's simply false. Also, it's not a red flag that there's no trial. I'd love to offer a trial, but the App Store unfortunately doesn't support trials for paid apps. Only apps that are "free" can have trials for an In App Purchase. StopTheMadness Pro is well-reviewed not only here but in the news media. "Not even google page opens correctly" isn't a problem that I've seen for myself or from other customers, but again, I can investigate if you contact support.
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Jeff Johnson
- Size
- 5 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.