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Post #1512788

2026-04-21 20:40 UTC

casual reminder that that "redirect substack to archive.is" browser extension getting linked around is slop granting it access to "all websites" will come back to bite you

Replies (7)

  • @amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-04-21 20:40

    @tully I clocked it as such

    Open ##1728264

  • @tully@cathode.church 2026-04-21 21:20

    @atax1a there's apparently some page inspection going on to handle substack's "host on your own domain" feature as well; now we're up to one (1) regexone (1) querySelectorAll() call so clearly only some kind of supergenius UTF-8 nozzle powered by recommissioned fossil fuel generators could possibly work within this problem domain

    Open ##1728265

  • @tully Also there was this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

    Open ##1728267

  • @tully I didn't know that, thank you! Geez, I've been checking for like software and game dev stuff but I didn't think people would need to use it for something like this, I should've known better…*sigh*

    Open ##1728270

  • @kemotep@mastodo.neoliber.al 2026-04-21 22:11

    @tully to build on this, you should be either using a separate browser or at least a different profile, with no or extremely limited number of browser extensions to do your online banking. For exactly the reason that some rando extension you forgot it active with all websites permissions or something gets hit in a supply chain attack or they owner sells out to someone who will update it to compromise you.

    Open ##1728273

  • @xyhhx@438punk.house 2026-04-21 22:35

    @tully mfs can't just copy/paste? also im pretty sure you can do this with a bookmarklet

    Open ##1728274

  • @Byte@rage.love 2026-04-22 01:17

    @tully oh for fuck’s sake the author cared enough about substack being shit to come up with the idea, but not enough about *why* it’s shit to write it themselves?!

    Open ##1728276