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Substack’s dubious practices aren’t as bad as their dubious politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

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Dickover. It is called a Dickover.


You don’t see the article?

It's kinda hilarious that on an article about said "dickovers", the page has one of these consuming 80% of the screen real estate: https://files.catbox.moe/ztjg15.png

I don’t get one. Not sure if that’s a mobile safari or a blocker or what.

This is on Firefox/Linux, but I’ve also seen it on Chrome/Windows, and Safari/Mac.

      uBlock-Origin settings | Filters | Cookie notices   
Works well for that subset of dickovers at least.

Consent-O-Matic works even better.

uBlock Origin and others remove the banner / consent screens fine, but it breaks functionality sometimes...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666283


At this point, one has to assume anyone still using substack has no problem with Nazis.

I wish they'd all host on substack.com and not their own domains. It's always uncomfortable to go to a site from HN and see that nazi-enabling substack banner.

I'm out of the loop, what's going on with Substack and nazis?

They sent push notifications to their users promoting Nazi content, to users that did not sign up to receive Nazi content. And rather than fixing the problem -- that they host and embrace Nazi content -- they said they fixed the notification issue so "problem solved".

Oh yay, the nazi content again. Don't let the Feb 2026 article date fool you, this has been talked about for years and they don't lift a finger. It's like how Meta isn't incentivized to block scams because they profit off of them to the tune of a billion dollars a year.

However, I do appreciate white supremacist trash outing themselves in public. Get it on the record. Some of them try to hide, but: Patriot Front had a huge leak of data in 2022 (400GB).

"Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns"[0]

You can download it at the following torrent address:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2c87816e4c81990fb25bbca43dd8d578eaa55886&dn=patriotfront&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

I'm seeding this on a permanent basis. I have gigabit uplink. Please leach and share.

0. https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-ex...




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