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:
- ⌘-click to open a link in a new tab
- ⌘-key keyboard shortcuts
- 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:
- 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.
Bonus Features:
- Stop videos from autoplaying. This works even on sites where the browser's autoplay preferences don't work, such as YouTube. And YouTube video ads are automatically skipped! Also stops videos from following you down the page when you scroll on many sites.
- Show native video controls. Use AirPlay or Picture-in-Picture from Safari on sites that don't normally support it, including YouTube!
- Automatically select the highest video quality on YouTube!
- Add your own site-specific CSS and JavaScript to web pages!
- Custom URL redirects! Redirect new Reddit to old Reddit, Twitter to Nitter, YouTube to Invidious, etc. You can create any redirect that you want!
- 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! (Feature not available in Firefox.)
- ⌘-c to copy link URL on hover! Much easier than opening the contextual menu. Also ⌘-x to copy link title on hover!
- ⌘-delete on hover to delete any HTML element on the page! If something is in your way, temporarily remove it.
- Stop ⌘-left-arrow from unexpectedly sending you back to the previous page in your browsing history.
- Stop scrolljacking.
- Stop sites from using JavaScript to track the movement of your mouse pointer. This feature can also stop hover popups from appearing on Wikipedia and Twitter.
Safari-specific Features:
- 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.
- Stop Safari from automatically submitting login forms. AutoFill login forms and then make changes such as checking "Remember Me" or take CAPTCHA tests before submitting.
- Automatically open clicked links in other apps. You can specify rules in StopTheMadness such as open
https://docs.google.com links in Google Chrome. Or even don't open https://facebook.com links at all, to keep you from accidentally opening Facebook!
- ⌘-v when hovering over a link to open the link with the app selected in the "Open Link with" popup.
- Open links with an alternative browser from Safari's contextual menu.
- Copy link title from Safari's contextual menu.
- Protects middle-click with the mouse to open a link in a new tab.
