Why StopTheMadness?
Many web sites deliberately disable user interface features in your browser that you normally expect to work. StopTheMadness re-enables those features for you in your browser:
- opening contextual menus
- selecting, copying, cutting, and pasting of text
- drag and drop
- AutoFill/autocomplete of passwords, emails, etc.
StopTheMadness also protects your privacy on the web:
- Stops Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)! Automatically loads the original "canonical" web site page instead of Google AMP.
- Removes tracking tags such as
utm_source (Urchin Tracking Module), gclid (Google Click ID), and fbclid (Facebook Click ID) from the end of URLs.
- Prevents hijacking/rewriting of clicked links in Google Search, Gmail, Facebook, and DuckDuckGo.
- Stops hyperlink auditing by removing the anchor "ping" attribute on link clicks.
- Stops tracking beacons (
Navigator.sendBeacon) from firing.
- Stops sites from using the Page Visibility API to know when a tab is visible on your screen.
- Stops URL shorteners. Checks the links you click in Safari for well-known link shorteners —
bit.ly, tinyurl.com, l.facebook.com, t.co (used by Twitter), etc. — and loads the unshortened destination URL instead of the shortened URL. This occurs without setting any cookies or other site data, so you can't be tracked by your click.
- Stops Apple News. Clicked Apple News links in Safari will stay in Safari and load the original article URL instead of sending you out of Safari into the News app.
Bonus Features:
- Stop videos from autoplaying. This works even on sites where Safari doesn't stop autoplay, such as YouTube! You can also stop sites in Safari from pausing your audio in a background app.
- Show native video controls. Use Picture-in-Picture from Safari on sites that don't normally support it, including YouTube!
- Hides the annoying popup banners prompting you to get the App Store app on Google, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, Tumblr, and Instagram!
- Add your own site-specific CSS and JavaScript to web pages!
- Enable pinch-to-zoom on sites that prevent it, such as old reddit.
- Stops "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" alerts. Close your tabs without getting stopped by the site!
- Force external links to open in the current tab instead of a new tab. Remove
target="_blank" from links so that they no longer automatically create a new tab.
- Force external links to open in a new tab instead of the current tab. This is great if you're scrolling through a list of links and want to open each one in a new tab.
- Force images to the front. Bypass the transparent overlay on sites such as Instagram that prevents you from dragging and opening the contextual menu on images.
- Warns when you paste or type beyond the maximum length in a password field or other text field. Stops you from accidentally losing characters!
