| StopTheMadness Take back your web browser |
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| StopTheMadness Take back your web browser |
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StopTheMadness Pro is the latest generation of StopTheMadness, a major upgrade.
StopTheMadness by Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company is a web browser extension that stops web site annoyances and privacy violations.
Copy and paste blocked?
Contextual menu blocked?
Keyboard shortcuts blocked?
Autoplaying videos?
URL tracking parameters?
Stop the madness!
Try this fun and surprising test page that demonstrates some “madness” on the web and why you need StopTheMadness.
StopTheMadness is one of a kind, with a unique feature set. It’s a supplement rather than a replacement for your other extensions. StopTheMadness is not an ad blocker, a cookie consent blocker, a dark mode extension, or a userscript/Greasemonkey manager. Although there’s a small amount of overlap, the ultimate purpose of StopTheMadness is to go where no extension has gone before.
Compatibility:
Safari on iOS and iPadOS 16 through 26.
Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Chromium browsers on macOS 12 Monterey through macOS 26 Tahoe.
Safari web apps on macOS 14 Sonoma and later.
Sold separately for Safari on visionOS.
Praise for StopTheMadness:
ScreencastsONLINE tutorial by Lee Garrett
John Gruber of Daring Fireball: “I’ve been using it for so long now that I’m taken aback when I use a factory-fresh no-extension installation of Safari. StopTheMadness Pro is a canonical example of a great power user utility”
Charlie Sorrel of Cult of Mac: “The good news is that you can wrest control of your browser back from these malicious, control-freak sites.”
Bryan Chaffin of the Mac Observer: “It re-enables all the normal Mac services in Safari, and you control which services you want on a site-by-site-basis if you wish.”
Josh Centers of TidBITS: “it’s a small price to pay to restore your control.”
Glenn Fleishman of Macworld: “StopTheMadness buys you a priceless amount of peace of mind. It’s an extension designed around your needs, not that of sites you visit.”
Nick Heer of Pixel Envy: “It remains the extension I most often turn to when a website is user-hostile or misbehaving — a piece of software which should not need to exist yet is invaluable for the modern web.”
Chance Miller of 9to5Mac: “It’s one of my favorite, must-have Safari extensions and I highly recommend checking it out.”
Federico Viticci of AppStories/MacStories: “Whenever I don’t have StopTheMadness installed, I remember why the web unfortunately can be a terrible place for some websites these days.”
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About the developer: Jeff Johnson, owner of Underpass App Company, had 15 minutes of fame for solving the Mac OCSP appocalypse. Before becoming an indie developer, Jeff was a longtime engineer at Rogue Amoeba Software and also worked on the open source RSS reader Vienna.