diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index c276f29e4..d1a6db538 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -1622,6 +1622,10 @@
                                     <div data-tg-type-mode="except" data-tg-type="generic" id="banned_tokens_block_ooba" class="wide100p">
                                         <hr class="width100p">
                                         <h4 class="range-block-title justifyCenter">
+                                            <label id="send_banned_tokens_label" for="send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" class="checkbox_label">
+                                                <input id="send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" type="checkbox" style="display:none;" />
+                                                <small><i class="fa-solid fa-power-off menu_button margin0"></i></small>
+                                            </label>
                                             <span data-i18n="Banned Tokens">Banned Tokens/Strings</span>
                                             <div class="margin5 fa-solid fa-circle-info opacity50p " data-i18n="[title]LLaMA / Mistral / Yi models only" title="Enter sequences you don't want to appear in the output.&#13;Unquoted text will be tokenized in the back end and banned as tokens.&#13;[token ids] will be banned as-is.&#13;Most tokens have a leading space. Use token counter (with the correct tokenizer selected first!) if you are unsure.&#13;Enclose text in double quotes to ban the entire string as a set.&#13;Quoted Strings and [Token ids] must be on their own line."></div>
                                         </h4>
diff --git a/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js b/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
index 392e33546..027fca9fb 100644
--- a/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
+++ b/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
     setOnlineStatus,
     substituteParams,
 } from '../script.js';
+import { t } from './i18n.js';
 import { BIAS_CACHE, createNewLogitBiasEntry, displayLogitBias, getLogitBiasListResult } from './logit-bias.js';
 
 import { power_user, registerDebugFunction } from './power-user.js';
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ const settings = {
     json_schema: {},
     banned_tokens: '',
     global_banned_tokens: '',
+    send_banned_tokens: true,
     sampler_priority: OOBA_DEFAULT_ORDER,
     samplers: LLAMACPP_DEFAULT_ORDER,
     samplers_priorities: APHRODITE_DEFAULT_ORDER,
@@ -276,6 +278,7 @@ export const setting_names = [
     'json_schema',
     'banned_tokens',
     'global_banned_tokens',
+    'send_banned_tokens',
     'ignore_eos_token',
     'spaces_between_special_tokens',
     'speculative_ngram',
@@ -455,6 +458,22 @@ function getCustomTokenBans() {
     };
 }
 
+async function enableBannedStringsKillSwitch() {
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui').prop('checked', true);
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_label').find('.menu_button').addClass('toggleEnabled').prop('title', t`Banned tokens/strings are being sent into the request.`);
+    settings.send_banned_tokens = true;
+    saveSettingsDebounced();
+    return '';
+}
+
+async function disableBannedStringsKillSwitch() {
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui').prop('checked', false);
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_label').find('.menu_button').removeClass('toggleEnabled').prop('title', t`Banned tokens/strings are NOT being sent into the request.`);
+    settings.send_banned_tokens = false;
+    saveSettingsDebounced();
+    return '';
+}
+
 /**
  * Calculates logit bias object from the logit bias list.
  * @returns {object} Logit bias object
@@ -597,6 +616,16 @@ function sortAphroditeItemsByOrder(orderArray) {
 }
 
 jQuery(function () {
+
+    $('#bannedStringsKillSwitch_textgenerationwebui').on('change', function () {
+        const checked = $(this).prop('checked');
+        if (checked) {
+            enableBannedStringsKillSwitch();
+        } else {
+            disableBannedStringsKillSwitch();
+        }
+    });
+
     $('#koboldcpp_order').sortable({
         delay: getSortableDelay(),
         stop: function () {
@@ -935,6 +964,10 @@ function setSettingByName(setting, value, trigger) {
     if (isCheckbox) {
         const val = Boolean(value);
         $(`#${setting}_textgenerationwebui`).prop('checked', val);
+
+        if ('send_banned_tokens' === setting) {
+            $('#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui').trigger('change');
+        }
     }
     else if (isText) {
         $(`#${setting}_textgenerationwebui`).val(value);
diff --git a/public/style.css b/public/style.css
index b56a87cd0..1aac652f2 100644
--- a/public/style.css
+++ b/public/style.css
@@ -2875,7 +2875,8 @@ select option:not(:checked) {
 }
 
 #instruct_enabled_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled),
-#sysprompt_enabled_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled) {
+#sysprompt_enabled_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled),
+#bannedStringsKillSwitch_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled) {
     color: Red;
 }