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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I've decided to stop linking my blog posts here, because there's basically zero engagement. Bluesky seems pretty dead. If you're interested, I'm on Mastodon. Or of course there's always RSS.

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Free with In-App Purchase is a sham lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Free with In-App Purchase is a sham

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up TL;DR There doesn't appear to be anything new that I didn't already report last year, despite what you may have read recently from another blogger. lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Why some Mac apps launch slowly: A follow-up

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New blog post: Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Google Chrome 136 automatically upgrades your accounts to use passkeys

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

StopTheMadness Pro 16.0 released in the App Store: underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

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StopTheMadness Pro 16.0 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4 lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Gatekeeper change in macOS 15.4

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New blog post: App Store Curation lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ChangeTheHeaders 2.0 released in the App Store New feature: URL filter (in addition to the preexisting URL Domains) underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

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ChangeTheHeaders 2.0 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 3 Plea to my followers: if you can reproduce this bug, please let me know! lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New blog post: Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2 lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia, Part 2

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New blog post: Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections? lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4 lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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NSURLComponents changed in macOS 15.4

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

StopTheScript 3.2 released in the iOS App Store • Fixed the appearance of the Safari extension icon • Updated the installation instructions on the launch screen for iOS 18 underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

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StopTheScript 3.2 released in the iOS App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Link Unshortener 19.1 released in the Mac App Store Fixed link-unshortener: URLs on macOS 15.4 underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

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Link Unshortener 19.1 released in the Mac App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

ChangeTheHeaders 1.2 released in the App Store: Fixed a bug where the error "Invalid call to declarativeNetRequest.updateDynamicRules()" could not be dismissed. underpassapp.com/news/2025/4/...

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ChangeTheHeaders 1.2 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Apple Software Update dark pattern lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

New Safari extension: ChangeTheHeaders to customize HTTP request headers underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

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New Safari extension: ChangeTheHeaders to customize HTTP request headers

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Why are macOS security updates re-running the Setup Assistant? lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Why are macOS security updates re-running the Setup Assistant?

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Google Chrome 134 requires permanent developer mode to use StopTheMadness Pro underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

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Google Chrome 134 requires permanent developer mode to use StopTheMadness Pro

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

StopTheMadness Pro 14.1 released in the App Store Bug fixes and performance improvements ;-) underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

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StopTheMadness Pro 14.1 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync FaceTime too! lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Legacy StopTheMadness (non-Pro) updated in the App Store This update fixes a couple of bugs. underpassapp.com/news/2025/3/...

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Legacy (non-Pro) StopTheMadness updated in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Why StopTheMadness for Safari web apps? If you'd like StopTheMadness support for Safari web apps on macOS, please let me know what you're missing specifically. underpassapp.com/news/2025/2/...

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Why StopTheMadness for Safari web apps?

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

StopTheMadness Pro 14.0 released in the App Store underpassapp.com/news/2025/2/...

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StopTheMadness Pro 14.0 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New blog post: Xcode constantly phones home lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Xcode constantly phones home

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New blog post: Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

YouTube fullscreen captions missing in Safari My new blog posts explains this issue. underpassapp.com/news/2025/2/...

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YouTube fullscreen captions missing in Safari

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence If you saw the "welcome" screen after updating to iOS 18.3.1 or macOS 15.3.1, then Apple Intelligence was probably re-enabled even after you disabled it. lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Apple Mail app bugs finally pushed me to MailMate lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Apple Mail app bugs finally pushed me to MailMate

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

YouTube problem in macOS Safari: Videos restart after about 4 seconds of playback. lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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YouTube problem in macOS Safari

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

StopTheMadness Pro 13.1 improves YouTube video ad skipping underpassapp.com/news/2025/1/...

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StopTheMadness Pro 13.1 improves YouTube video ad skipping

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Image Creation Tools Are Here How to remove that advertisement, and future advertisements, from the top of macOS System Settings lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Image Creation Tools Are Here

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Little Snitch feature nobody knows about: lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

New secure note on macOS Sequoia: lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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New secure note on macOS Sequoia

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Apple Passwords is hostile to backups lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Apple Passwords is hostile to backups

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

StopTheMadness Pro 13.0 released in the App Store Can protect against double-clickjacking attacks! underpassapp.com/news/2025/1/...

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StopTheMadness Pro 13.0 released in the App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

macOS Sequoia iCloud Photos configuration profile bug lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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macOS Sequoia iCloud Photos configuration profile bug

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Help? Reset AirDrop identity hash lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Help? Reset AirDrop identity hash

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Link Unshortener 19.0 released in the Mac App Store • New setting: Open URL in the background when Link Unshortener is in the background • Experimental SOCKS proxy support underpassapp.com/news/2025/1/...

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Link Unshortener 19.0 released in the Mac App Store

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

New blog post: Technology is never a substitute for consent lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Technology is never a substitute for consent

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

New blog post: The internet is full of experts lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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The internet is full of experts

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Deep dive into a macOS default web browser bug (with an appendix about Safari extensions) This blog post has undergone some revision and correction since first published a few hours ago. lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

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Deep dive into a macOS default web browser bug

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Jeff Johnson @lapcatsoftware.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

StopTheMadness Pro 12.3 released in the App Store underpassapp.com/news/2024/12...

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StopTheMadness Pro 12.3 released in the App Store

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