Whoa!
Hotlinking Ghost CDN URLs in Substack production HTML.
Yes this is a bad look for Substack. And it puts them - and their users - at Ghost's mercy.
Hotlinking Ghost CDN URLs in Substack production HTML.
Yes this is a bad look for Substack. And it puts them - and their users - at Ghost's mercy.
The asset that thefp.com is using is the one that gets loaded from the latter (the one served from the public CDN), and you can see that this was true even at the time that O'Nolan's screenshots were taken. For some reason, he mixed them up; the only evidence that we have of anyone here using the CDN that Ghost is (presumably) paying for is Ghost's own use of it themselves.
It just 2-3 lines in your nginx/apache config file that blocks hot linking, and many people consider this a standard practice to do regardless.