hausgeist

By now it's a well established fact that Substack likes hosting nazis. They are the digital publishing equivalent of the old nazi bar story.

And what do you do with a nazi bar? That's right, you stop going there.

Now, it's easy enough to avoid pages under the substack.com domain, maybe you even add it to your adblocker. What about those substacks with a custom domain though? They seem innocuous at first glance, and then later you realize that they are hosted on Substack and suddenly you feel all ashamed for supporting a nazi bar.

Well, if you are fortunate enough to run your own DNS resolver like AdGuard Home, here's a couple blocking rules that will stop that from happening:

||substack-custom-domains.com^
||substack.com^
||substackcdn.com^
||substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com^

Hello world.

This is a new beginning.