How to temporarily disable browsersync?

Question

How can I temporarily disable browsersync, so that it doesn't inject/modify HTML pages? (For testing and debugging.)

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be a configuration option to do just this, but one hacky workaround is to use snippetOptions to specify a string that will will never be found in the HTML:

snippetOptions: {
  rule: {
    match: /qqqqqqqqq/
  }
}

If this string cannot be found in the HTML, the snippet will never be injected, and browsersync will be inert.