StopTheMadness Mobile
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utilities | $7.99 | Jeff Johnson | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Many web sites disable user interface features in Safari that you normally expect to work. StopTheMadness ensures that those features continue to work for you in Safari:
• opening contextual menus
• selecting, copying, cutting, and pasting of text
• drag and drop
• AutoFill/autocomplete of passwords, emails, etc.
With StopTheMadness enabled, the annoying web sites that deliberately make your life harder suddenly become easy to use again!
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.
• Stops hyperlink auditing (anchor "ping").
• Stops tracking beacons (Navigator.sendBeacon).
• Stops clickjacking in Google Search results.
• Stops clickjacking in Gmail.
• Stops clickjacking in Facebook.
• Stops sites from using the Page Visibility API to know when a tab is visible on your screen.
• Removes tracking parameters such as utm_source, gclid, and fbclid from the end of link URLs when clicked in Safari.
• Stops URL shorteners. Checks the links you click in Safari for well-known link shorteners — bit.ly, tinyurl.com, l.facebook.com, t.co, 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.
Bonus Features:
• Stop videos from autoplaying on all web sites.
• Show native video controls. Easily enter Picture-in-Picture from Safari on all web sites!
• Force 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.
• Warns when you paste or type beyond the maximum length in a password field or other text field.
• Stops "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" alerts. Close your tabs without getting stopped by the site!
• Force images to the front. Bypass the transparent overlay on sites that prevents you from dragging and opening the contextual menu on images.
StopTheMadness is made by indie developer Jeff Johnson. If you need support, please email me at [email protected] or read the support site at https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/support.html
Reviews
So happy to have this on iOS/iPadOS!
skylarp
StopTheMadness is a godsend on macOS Safari, and I was so happy to see it released for iOS and iPadOS today. $7.99 is a steal, particularly considering all the goodness the macOS version has brought into my life.
Total gem!
[Name withheld]
The macOS version of this app may be my favorite piece of software so I’m thrilled to have it on iOS too. Possibly the best deal in the AppStore. (Glowing review notwithstanding, I am not in any way affiliated with developer—aside from being a huge fan.) Seriously: a great deal for a great app.
Bye bye AMP!!
ericsanman
So excited to be done with Google amp links. All of the other privacy features are really excellent to have as well. Will probably have to get this for my Mac now too.
Worth every penny!
LeewardF
I’ve used this extension on my Mac for a while and couldn’t be happier to see it come to iOS / iPadOS! Take my money! Thank you for this extension!
It works!
Hector Ordorica
I really wish the UX/UI was easier to understand without reading the long help page. Maybe the developer could add some hints ( like hit return to add a custom site; or nothing happens). But overall this is a power user Safari extension.
Amazing Developer Response
GR3GB
I emailed the dev with a request to add a feature to override the zoom settings of a website and within a week he had implemented it in the extension and it works perfectly. 5 stars easy!
Great service
M. Thomas
There was a bug that I reported and the developer Jeff got back to me right away and fixed the issue very quickly. Great service
A long overdue program
Reggae Makossa
This app is a long overdue tool against a increasingly and frustratingly more than ever monetized user hostile internet
Stops the auto play videos
horizontalheat
Videos still chase me, but at least they’re not autoplaying!
Is it working?
App Crackle Pop
Honestly can’t tell what it’s doing for me. I purchased on a whim and now keep trying to find the benefit. Maybe it’s obscured by my existing ad blocker. A better UI would help too. Whenever I change options , I can’t tell if I’m changing global settings or a specific site’s settings. 3 stars until features are better observed.
