Indie developer Jeff Johnson is out with a brand new Safari extension that goals to dam net fonts completely different than the put in fonts in your system. Dubbed “StopTheFonts,” the extension is highly-customizable, permitting you to create guidelines for various web sites, block all net fonts by default, and extra.
StopTheFonts joins Johnson’s different standard Safari extension StopTheMadness, which is a extra wide-ranging app that blocks all types of website “annoyances and privateness violations.” For example, StopTheMadness can block monitoring URLs, cease autoplaying movies, re-enable like copy and paste on web sites that block these options (like banking web sites), and extra.
StopTheFonts is extra narrowed in scope and is designed as a Safari extension to dam net fonts on iOS and macOS. Internet fonts, for these unfamiliar, are fonts on a web site that load from the online relatively than the put in fonts in your system. Why are net fonts one thing you would possibly wish to block in your gadgets? Johnson explains:
There are a selection of causes to make use of StopTheFonts: to guard your privateness, as a result of each net font is loaded over the online, exposing your IP handle and probably different data, typically to 3rd events; to make net pages load sooner, as a result of they don’t have to attend for the fonts to load; to avoid wasting bandwidth on carrier-limited connections.
StopTheFonts is flexible and presents to dam all net fonts by default or to customise and create particular guidelines for various URLs.
You may set StopTheFonts to dam all net fonts by default or to permit all net fonts by default. For the best utilization of StopTheFonts, simply block every part. For extra superior utilization, you’ll be able to create guidelines for particular URLs. There are two rule varieties: net font guidelines and website guidelines. An online font rule permits or blocks a particular font URL on each website, whereas a website rule permits or blocks all net fonts on a particular web site URL. Regex is obtainable as an choice for URLs.
If you wish to set up customized fonts in your Mac, iPhone, or iPad that don’t load over the online each time, Apple has guides for that on its assist web site:
StopTheMadness is without doubt one of the first apps that I be certain that to put in on a brand new iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It actually does make the searching expertise in Safari considerably sooner and extra “native” to the expertise for which Apple develops. StopTheFonts seems to be like one other welcome addition to the Safari extension providing from Johnson.
You obtain StopTheFonts from the App Retailer as a one-time buy of $2.99. It’s accessible for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. If you wish to check out StopTheMadness, you’ll be able to be taught extra through Johnson’s web site and discover it on the App Retailer as properly.
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