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   Jason Cosper (boogah@simian.rodeo)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 09:13:57 JST Jason Cosper

   Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

   So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

   Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

   Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

   https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 09:23:03 JST Rich Felker

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     @boogah FYI for folks thinking of installing this:

     There's no source visible on the GitHub repo and this is a new GitHub account with no history. I downloaded it and extracted the xpi to see if it looks safe, and I didn't see anything obviously bad/dangerous, but there is a CLAUDE.md file...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 11:44:21 JST Rich Felker

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     • Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

     @Niall @boogah Well it's normal for an extension that reads or modifies any page content to need that.

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     Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: (niall@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 11:44:22 JST Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias yeah I wondered about what it might be doing given that it wants permission for seemingly *everything*
     @boogah

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 16:48:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     @boogah Thank you for your service :)