diff --git a/public/css/toggle-dependent.css b/public/css/toggle-dependent.css
index 967aa55e6..59c2e9a28 100644
--- a/public/css/toggle-dependent.css
+++ b/public/css/toggle-dependent.css
@@ -493,3 +493,7 @@ label[for="trim_spaces"]:not(:has(input:checked)) small {
 #mistralai_other_models:empty {
     display: none;
 }
+
+#banned_tokens_block_ooba:not(:has(#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui:checked)) #banned_tokens_controls_ooba {
+    filter: brightness(0.5);
+}
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index d46dab4fd..b6a3e6557 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -1621,17 +1621,34 @@
                                     </div>
                                     <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">
-                                            <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>
-                                        <div class="wide100p">
-                                            <textarea id="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" class="text_pole textarea_compact" name="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" rows="3" data-i18n="[placeholder]Example: some text [42, 69, 1337]" placeholder='some text as tokens&#10;[420, 69, 1337]&#10;"Some verbatim string"'></textarea>
+                                        <div class="range-block-title title_restorable">
+                                            <div>
+                                                <strong data-i18n="Banned Tokens">Banned Tokens/Strings</strong>
+                                                <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>
+                                            </div>
+                                            <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 togglable margin0"></i></small>
+                                            </label>
+                                        </div>
+                                        <div id="banned_tokens_controls_ooba">
+                                            <div class="textAlignCenter">
+                                                <small data-i18n="Global list">Global list</small>
+                                            </div>
+                                            <div class="wide100p marginBot10">
+                                                <textarea id="global_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" class="text_pole textarea_compact" name="global_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" rows="3" data-i18n="[placeholder]Example: some text [42, 69, 1337]" placeholder='some text as tokens&#10;[420, 69, 1337]&#10;"Some verbatim string"'></textarea>
+                                            </div>
+                                            <div class="textAlignCenter">
+                                                <small data-i18n="Preset-specific list">Preset-specific list</small>
+                                            </div>
+                                            <div class="wide100p">
+                                                <textarea id="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" class="text_pole textarea_compact" name="banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui" rows="3" data-i18n="[placeholder]Example: some text [42, 69, 1337]" placeholder='some text as tokens&#10;[420, 69, 1337]&#10;"Some verbatim string"'></textarea>
+                                            </div>
                                         </div>
                                     </div>
                                     <div class="range-block wide100p">
                                         <div id="logit_bias_textgenerationwebui" class="range-block-title title_restorable">
-                                            <span data-i18n="Logit Bias">Logit Bias</span>
+                                            <strong data-i18n="Logit Bias">Logit Bias</strong>
                                             <div id="textgen_logit_bias_new_entry" class="menu_button menu_button_icon">
                                                 <i class="fa-xs fa-solid fa-plus"></i>
                                                 <small data-i18n="Add">Add</small>
@@ -3517,7 +3534,7 @@
                                 </label>
                                 <label id="instruct_enabled_label"for="instruct_enabled" class="checkbox_label flex1" title="Enable Instruct Mode" data-i18n="[title]instruct_enabled">
                                     <input id="instruct_enabled" type="checkbox" style="display:none;" />
-                                    <small><i class="fa-solid fa-power-off menu_button margin0"></i></small>
+                                    <small><i class="fa-solid fa-power-off menu_button togglable margin0"></i></small>
                                 </label>
                             </div>
                         </h4>
@@ -3695,7 +3712,7 @@
                             <div class="flex-container">
                                 <label id="sysprompt_enabled_label" for="sysprompt_enabled" class="checkbox_label flex1" title="Enable System Prompt" data-i18n="[title]sysprompt_enabled">
                                     <input id="sysprompt_enabled" type="checkbox" style="display:none;" />
-                                    <small><i class="fa-solid fa-power-off menu_button margin0"></i></small>
+                                    <small><i class="fa-solid fa-power-off menu_button togglable margin0"></i></small>
                                 </label>
                             </div>
                         </h4>
diff --git a/public/scripts/preset-manager.js b/public/scripts/preset-manager.js
index 0d7d3c133..14991900f 100644
--- a/public/scripts/preset-manager.js
+++ b/public/scripts/preset-manager.js
@@ -587,6 +587,8 @@ class PresetManager {
             'derived',
             'generic_model',
             'include_reasoning',
+            'global_banned_tokens',
+            'send_banned_tokens',
         ];
         const settings = Object.assign({}, getSettingsByApiId(this.apiId));
 
diff --git a/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js b/public/scripts/textgen-settings.js
index 50c630841..7fefed1d9 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';
@@ -182,6 +183,8 @@ const settings = {
     grammar_string: '',
     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,
@@ -274,6 +277,8 @@ export const setting_names = [
     'grammar_string',
     'json_schema',
     'banned_tokens',
+    'global_banned_tokens',
+    'send_banned_tokens',
     'ignore_eos_token',
     'spaces_between_special_tokens',
     'speculative_ngram',
@@ -394,7 +399,7 @@ function getTokenizerForTokenIds() {
  * @returns {TokenBanResult} String with comma-separated banned token IDs
  */
 function getCustomTokenBans() {
-    if (!settings.banned_tokens && !textgenerationwebui_banned_in_macros.length) {
+    if (!settings.send_banned_tokens || (!settings.banned_tokens && !settings.global_banned_tokens && !textgenerationwebui_banned_in_macros.length)) {
         return {
             banned_tokens: '',
             banned_strings: [],
@@ -404,8 +409,9 @@ function getCustomTokenBans() {
     const tokenizer = getTokenizerForTokenIds();
     const banned_tokens = [];
     const banned_strings = [];
-    const sequences = settings.banned_tokens
-        .split('\n')
+    const sequences = []
+        .concat(settings.banned_tokens.split('\n'))
+        .concat(settings.global_banned_tokens.split('\n'))
         .concat(textgenerationwebui_banned_in_macros)
         .filter(x => x.length > 0)
         .filter(onlyUnique);
@@ -452,6 +458,18 @@ function getCustomTokenBans() {
     };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Sets the banned strings kill switch toggle.
+ * @param {boolean} isEnabled Kill switch state
+ * @param {string} title Label title
+ */
+function toggleBannedStringsKillSwitch(isEnabled, title) {
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui').prop('checked', isEnabled);
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_label').find('.menu_button').toggleClass('toggleEnabled', isEnabled).prop('title', title);
+    settings.send_banned_tokens = isEnabled;
+    saveSettingsDebounced();
+}
+
 /**
  * Calculates logit bias object from the logit bias list.
  * @returns {object} Logit bias object
@@ -594,6 +612,14 @@ function sortAphroditeItemsByOrder(orderArray) {
 }
 
 jQuery(function () {
+    $('#send_banned_tokens_textgenerationwebui').on('change', function () {
+        const checked = !!$(this).prop('checked');
+        toggleBannedStringsKillSwitch(checked,
+            checked
+                ? t`Banned tokens/strings are being sent in the request.`
+                : t`Banned tokens/strings are NOT being sent in the request.`);
+    });
+
     $('#koboldcpp_order').sortable({
         delay: getSortableDelay(),
         stop: function () {
@@ -932,6 +958,10 @@ function setSettingByName(setting, value, trigger) {
     if (isCheckbox) {
         const val = Boolean(value);
         $(`#${setting}_textgenerationwebui`).prop('checked', val);
+
+        if ('send_banned_tokens' === setting) {
+            $(`#${setting}_textgenerationwebui`).trigger('change');
+        }
     }
     else if (isText) {
         $(`#${setting}_textgenerationwebui`).val(value);
diff --git a/public/style.css b/public/style.css
index d045ab5c5..ff585ca65 100644
--- a/public/style.css
+++ b/public/style.css
@@ -2879,9 +2879,8 @@ select option:not(:checked) {
     color: var(--active) !important;
 }
 
-#instruct_enabled_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled),
-#sysprompt_enabled_label .menu_button:not(.toggleEnabled) {
-    color: Red;
+.menu_button.togglable:not(.toggleEnabled) {
+    color: red;
 }
 
 .displayBlock {