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/
Jason Cosper
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2026-04-20 22:28:39 UTC
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