• Bypass link shorteners: Fixed a bug introduced in version 27.1 where the destination URL failed to load if you have no redirect rules • Stop link trackers: Remove additional parameters from Amazon URLs • Stop link trackers: Fixed removal of the "si" parameter from YouTube playlist URLs

• Fixed an issue where the buttons at the top of the extension popup window were not enabled or disabled correctly after some changes • Show native video controls: Uncover the top area of the native video controls on Instagram • Show native video controls: Fixed the missing header on the apple.com iOS preview page • Stop video pausing: Renamed to “Stop media pausing” and added audio support to handle the Dithering podcast • Show stopped window URL: Show a brief popover when no URL is passed to window.open • Autoclick buttons: Fixed an issue on YouTube where a button in a same-origin iframe could get autoclicked after the specified timeout • Autoclick buttons: Fixed an issue on CNN where the bottom subscription banner close button did not get clicked • Bypass link shorteners: Fixed with maps.app.goo.gl links • Firefox: Fixed the release notes opt-out in the extension popup window

• Added a one-click command to exempt the current website from StopTheMadness Pro • App rules: Added missing support for URL port numbers • Removed “None” from the platforms popup menu of site-specific options, because it was very confusing • Bypass link shorteners: Added https://e.daily.comms.yahoo.net/click • Show native video controls: Uncover the Share sheet on YouTube • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Improved when clicking on non-video page elements • Stop video pausing: Allow the play-pause function key on the keyboard to pause the video • Stop link trackers: Removes the new "is" tracking parameter from YouTube links • Stop link trackers: Removes tracking parameters from yahoo.com links • Fixed a bug in Chrome and Firefox where the platform of site-specific options could not be edited when the platform was unknown

• Autoclick buttons: Use the Frame Domain about:blank for about:blank iframes • Autoclick buttons: No longer clicks hidden buttons on macOS • Override built-in functions: Fixed some breakage introduced in StopTheMadness Pro version 26.1 • Protect navigation: This option is now disabled by default on macOS, because it breaks scroll position restoration when navigating back on Reddit • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Improved on apnews.com on macOS

• Autoclick buttons: Fixed autoclick of buttons in same-origin iframes, such as YouTube live chat • Autoclick buttons: Include aria-label in the button selector • Autoclick buttons: Fixed a bug where Autoclick Button was not disabled in the Chrome and Firefox extension popup when the extension was disabled • Override built-in functions: Improved on CNN

• New feature: Autoclick buttons! Specify a button on a website to be clicked automatically. For example, agree to terms and conditions, reject cookies, or close a popup. • Font replacements: New option “Warn of blocked replacement.” This option, enabled by default, displays a warning when the Content Security Policy of the web page blocks your font replacement. • Font replacements: Fixed “Unset all of the website's fonts” in the Shadow DOM. • Shadow DOM: Fixed an incompatibility with the Noir extension on Cloudflare challenges. • Show native video controls: Fixed Vimeo embeds. • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Fixed a display issue on thehill.com when scrolling down the page. • Input maxlength warning: Fixed an issue where autofill could produce multiple warnings. • Stop link trackers: Remove the cvid and ocid tracking parameters from msn.com URLs. • Force popups into tabs: Fixed a bug where noopener and noreferrer could be lost. • Override built-in functions: Fixed an incompatibility with the qBittorrent WebUI. • StopTheMadness Pro now requires macOS 14 or later.

• Max volume on first video play: Improved on Instagram • Force same-site links into the same tab: Undid the fix on MSN introduced in version 25.5, because it broke the chats popup on Reddit

• Protect text selection: Fixed a YouTube issue where clicking a video could double the speed when text is selected on the page • Show native video controls: Fixed a hang on hhpanda.st • Show native video controls and Max volume on first video play: Fixed on Instagram • Show native video controls and Include loop videos: Fixed a Slack issue where the video container covered clickable buttons and links • Show native video controls and Include loop videos: Make the transparent video opaque on megamac.com • Force same-site links into the same tab: Fixed on MSN • Protect multi-line text editing: The option is now listed in alphabetical order again after the rename from Protect textareas in StopTheMadness Pro 25.4

• Renamed “Protect textareas” to “Protect multi-line text editing” • Protect text selection: Fixed an issue on YouTube with releasing the video timeline slider • Protect text selection and Show native video controls: Fixed some issues on unchained.com • Media Highlight on Page: Prevent CSS transform from hiding video controls • Protect history: Apply only to the main frame, not to iframes, which fixes an incompatibility with Cloudflare challenges • Protect vertical scrollbar: Fixed an issue on MyChart where a dialog could appear too far down the page

• Hide YouTube Shorts: Fixed on the Subscriptions page • Protect tab closing and visibility: Fixed an issue with video playback on aniwatchtv.to introduced in version 25.1 • Stop scroll to top: Minor implementation improvement • Hide Page Element and JavaScript Snippets: Fixed an issue where x.com could prevent the escape key from closing the dialog • Safari web apps: Fixed an issue where the extension popup was scrolled down when opened • Safari web apps: Fixed an issue where some error messages were not displayed in the extension popup • Open URL with: Added tooltips to the popup menu items to show the bundle identifiers of the apps

• Override built-in functions: Fixed an incompatibility with the FancyZoom image viewer on Daring Fireball • Declarative Shadow DOM: Fixed an issue with ESPN videos introduced in StopTheMadness Pro 25.1 • Stop link trackers: Handle newsletter.smartbrief.com redirects • Bypass link shorteners: Bypass r.smartbrief.com redirects

• Protect tab closing and visibility: Fixed on YouTube • The Hidden Elements and Tracking Parameters sections now have search fields • Declarative Shadow DOM: Fixed on nytimes.com • Stop video pausing: Fixed on nytimes.com • Show native video controls: Hides the non-native buttons on nytimes.com • Show native video controls: Fixed on ABC News • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Hides sticky videos on thehill.com • Hide some banners: Hides notification requests on Lifehacker

• Hide Page Element: The extension popup window now closes automatically when you toggle the button on • Hide Page Element: The “Hide” button is no longer disabled when the “Enter page domain or URL” field is empty • Protect text selection: Fixed nonfunctional Google Sheets menu items in non-Safari web browsers • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Hide fixed-position videos on abcnews.com and sfgate.com • Show native video controls: Stop ESPN from muting videos on play • Show native audio controls: Fixed an incompatibility with smzdm.com • Hide some banners: Hide subscribers.com and webpush.js notification requests • Added a warning about importing large user-installed font replacement files • Font replacements: Optimize memory usage of user-installed font replacement files

Show native video controls: Fixed a bug introduced in StopTheMadness Pro version 24.2

• Stop autoplaying audio and video: Stop autoplay after pressing the instagram.com home button • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Hide fixed-position videos on abcnews.go.com, hollywoodreporter.com, and lifehacker.com • Stop autoplaying audio and video and Show native video controls: Fixed a bug introduced in StopTheMadness Pro 22.3 where fixed-position videos were no longer hidden on deadline.com • Show native audio controls: Fixed an incompatibility with the naver.com login form • Bypass link shorteners: Handle https://www.google.com/share.google?q= links • Stop link trackers: Automatically remove the wt_mc URL tracking parameter • Fixed a bug where the StopTheMadness Scripts contextual menu item would not appear when all other custom contextual menu items were disabled • Firefox: Installing the native messaging host file automatically creates the Mozilla folder in Application Support if missing

• YouTube options: Fixed some options in macOS Safari after recent YouTube changes • Protect text selection: Fixed Google Sheets in Chrome and Firefox • Show native audio controls and Stop autoplaying audio and video: Fixed an incompatibility with the Mastodon audio player

• New website option: Stop scroll to top, which stops websites from using JavaScript to scroll the page to the top • New website option: Protect selection indicators, which along with Protect text selection stops websites from making your text selection invisible • Protect text selection: Fixed incompatibilities with selection in Bluesky, Google Maps, Google Sheets, drag in Google Calendar, and shift-click in Autodesk Tinkercad • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Stop text selection from triggering autoplay • Stop autoplaying audio and Show native audio controls: Output a console warning when AudioNode connect is invisibly stopped • Show native video controls: Fixed slideshow buttons on keurig.ca • JavaScript Snippets: Moved the Run Snippets button above the snippet selector in the HTML extension window, because the button was too close to the Remove button • Show stopped window URL: Fixed the Watch on YouTube button in YouTube embeds • Hide some banners: Fixed an issue where page elements could not be clicked behind some hidden “Sign in with Google” and “Use Google Maps in Chrome” banners • Hide some banners: Hide “Stay organized with Google Calendar in Chrome” • Copy on hover shows popover: Reworded the message to clarify which website option triggered the popover • Improved handling of migration of the Mac app from another Mac

• Show native video controls: Fixed a YouTube issue where the video was draggable • Show native video controls: Prevent YouTube from changing the volume • Show native video controls: Fixed an issue with multiple videos stacked in a tablist • Protect text selection: Protect selection mouseup events • Protect text selection and Show native video controls: Fixed an incompatibility with reveryburlingame.com • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Possible improvement when Show native video controls is enabled • Bypass link shorteners: Fixed same-site Bing and Substack redirects • Stop link trackers: Remove the rcm tracking parameters from LinkedIn URLs • Hide some banners: Hide Notix notification requests • Hover keyboard shortcuts: Fixed with elements in the Shadow DOM • In the add website sheet, changed the popup label "Enabled on platforms" to "Customize on platforms", because "Enabled" caused confusion about the purpose of the popup • Changed the website options button label "Rename" to "Edit" and switched the button order with "Remove"

• Hide page element: Improved handling of iframes • Hide some banners: Hide "Use Google Sheets in Chrome" on docs.google.com • Hide some banners: Hide push notification requests from moengage and pushnami • Hide some banners: Hide newsletter signup requests from hellobar • Reload in minutes: The timer is restarted when you interact with the web page • YouTube skip video ads: Fixed an issue where the sort comments popup would not appear • Bypass link shorteners: Fixed Substack redirects • Protect mouse movement: Disable the protection temporarily while holding the option key

• Redirects: Fixed issues in Safari introduced in versions 22.2 and 22.3 • Bypass link shorteners: Bypass AMP URLs on macOS • Hide some banners: Hide subscription notifications banners from iZooto • Show native audio controls: Fixed on sfgate.com and wmmr.com • Show native video controls: Fixed on threads.com • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Prevent close buttons from triggering playback on even more websites • YouTube video quality: Labeled the 5K option as obsolete

• Redirects: Fixed an issue in Safari introduced in version 22.2 where the tab could close with Preload Top Hit in the background • Bypass link shorteners: Bypass AMP URLs on macOS • Hide some banners: Hide subscription notifications banners from iZooto • Show native audio controls: Fixed on sfgate.com and wmmr.com • Show native video controls: Fixed on threads.com • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Prevent close buttons from triggering playback on even more websites • YouTube video quality: Labeled the 5K option as obsolete

• Redirects: Fixed redirects to custom URL schemes broken in version 22.1 • Stop autoplaying audio and video: Prevent close buttons from triggering playback • Stop link trackers: Remove dib, dib_tag and sr parameters from Amazon URLs

• YouTube Show Picture-in-Picture button: Fixed the button alignment in the new YouTube UI • Max volume on first video play: Improved on Facebook • Show native video controls: Fixed with Facebook reels • Show native audio controls and Stop autoplaying audio and video: Allow an extra second of buffering to fix an issue where Connecticut Public Radio would not play • Show video controls toggle: Show the button only in the main frame, not in embedded video iframes • Video Controls ⌃⌘V toggle: Fixed the keyboard shortcut with embedded videos • Redirects: Fixed the error "This video is unavailable" when redirecting from youtube.com to youtube-nocookie.com • Stop link trackers: Automatically remove the ueid parameter from YouTube URLs • Chrome and Firefox: Improved the appearance and layout of some elements in the extension popup window

• Bypass link shorteners: Bypass Bing tracking URLs. • Bypass link shorteners: Fixed an issue where Notion sites could redirect to a JavaScript disabled page. • New website option: Protect navigation. This option, enabled by default, stops websites from using the new experimental Navigation API to intercept link clicks. • Input maxlength warning: Fixed incorrect warnings with number pickers.

• New website option: Declarative Shadow DOM. This option fixes “Show native videos controls” and “Stop autoplaying audio and video” on nytimes.com. • New website option: Stop video pausing. This option fixes “Stop autoplaying audio and video” with “Show native videos controls” on nytimes.com. • Max volume on first video play: Made this a separate option from “Stop autoplaying audio and video.” • Stop link trackers: Fixed image thumbnails on gamenerdz.com. • Protect private windows: Fixed an issue introduced in version 20.4 where disabling the option didn't work right. • Protect private windows: Fixed a console log error on http pages introduced in version 20.3. • Extension Enabled: The checkbox text is now red when unchecked.