uBlock Origin filters for Substack and Substack-based websites

ublock-origin-substack.txt

! Block annoying Substack stuff
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.subscribe-dialog
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.subscribe-dialog-scroll-modal-scroll-capture
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*=".frontend-components-SubscribePrompt-module__subscribeDialog--"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*=".frontend-components-SubscribePrompt-module__background--"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.post-end-cta-full
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.show-subscribe.subscription-widget
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.topbar-content
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##body:style(cursor: auto !important;)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="subscribeDialog"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="SubscribePrompt"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="background"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="popoverButtons"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="_popover_"]
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[class*="popover-"]

! Modified from https://ronitray.xyz/writing/clean-substack/
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com###nojs-banner
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.subscribe-btn.subscribe-cta.primary.button
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.notification-container.menu-button.button > svg
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.subscribe-footer
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##[href^="/subscribe"] > .subscribe-btn.primary.button
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##td.icon.post-meta-item:nth-of-type(1)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##div.subscribe-widget:nth-of-type(3)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##div.subscribe-widget > .form > .sideBySideWrap > input
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##div.subscribe-widget > .form > .sideBySideWrap
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##td.icon.post-meta-item:nth-of-type(2)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##td.icon.post-meta-item:nth-of-type(3)

! From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1fhvrxt/blockbypass_intro_page_for_substack_sites/lnd6qij/
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.intro-popup
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com###main:style(visibility: visible !important;)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##html.modal-in, html.show-intro-popup:style(overflow: auto !important;)
substack.com,overcomingbias.com,astralcodexten.com,mindthefuture.info,benlandautaylor.com,news.manifold.markets,betonit.ai,richardhanania.com,computerenhance.com##.has-intro-popup.show-intro-popup body:style(height: auto !important; width: auto !important; overflow: auto !important;)

FWIW, I needed to tweak a couple of these a bit to deal with the dynamically-generated class names:

substack.com##[class*=".frontend-components-SubscribePrompt-module__subscribeDialog--"]
substack.com##[class*=".frontend-components-SubscribePrompt-module__background--"]

Thanks for posting this, it was a great starting point!

@jbm9 Thanks for the comment! I think when I made this Gist 10 months ago Substack was still using hard-coded class names, but I guess they got smarter about it... I've updated those two lines to use yours.

I've found targeting the .pencraft class is sufficient to work across a much wider range of substack websites, e.g.

##.pencraft [class*="_subscribeDialog_"]
##.pencraft [class*="_background_"]

@domdomegg If I understand your comment correctly, you're saying I can remove the list of domains and instead just add the .pencraft class. I don't want to do that because it's possible some non-Substack websites will use some of the same class names and I don't want to potentially break those sites in ways that could be hard to debug.

Yep, that is my claim. I agree there comes some risk of breaking non-substack websites, but the trade-off of having this work reliably on many different custom domains is worth it for me, and I see it as very unlikely that these specific filters match again. But fair enough not updating your overall filters, can understand this is a trade-off :)

Seems they updated the css a bit, or maybe since I'm using adguard the filters need to be different, but this works for me now:

##.pencraft [class*="subscribeDialog"]
##.pencraft [class*="background"]

@evfrenkel Thank you! They do indeed seem to have updated the CSS. I've incorporated your changes.