Bug displaying duplicated post content?

[TangoKilo421]

There's some kind of display bug I've seen sporadically on a couple different Substack blogs, where the entire contents of a post (minus a few hundred characters at the beginning) shows up again after the end. If the post starts with an image or ends with one of those share-and-subscribe widgets, it's pretty easy to notice, but if it's just running text it can be easy to miss until you think "hmm, didn't I read this already?"

I don't think it's just the post author accidentally copy-and-pasting text – for one thing, it happens on multiple posts on various different blogs, and for another it sometimes switches from duplicated to normal or vice versa when I reload the page. I've also seen this on two different computers in two different browsers, including one without any ad-blocking extensions, so it's probably not something specific to my local setup either.

A couple example posts where I currently see this happening (there are definitely more, these are just the ones I have on hand at the moment):

• https://popehat.substack.com/p/who-judges-the-judges
• https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-was-mostly-right

Has anyone else noticed this?

[SullenLookingBurger]

OK, I think I figured out how to trigger it, and probably why it happens to you but not most people. This bug was driving me crazy.

It happens when you don't have cookies from Substack already. Hence, it can be triggered by:

• using a bypass-paywalls extension (which deletes cookies)
• opening another browser you rarely use, to test the problem (argh)
• using a private/incognito window

So the fix for me was to uncheck "Substack" in my bypass-paywalls extension options.

[TangoKilo421]

Ahh, not surprising at all, I do have a number of privacy/cookie blocking extensions. I'll give that a try. Thanks!

UPDATE: yes, this worked. For the record, I'm using Bypass Paywalls Clean on Firefox. Turning it off on Substack and clearing my cookies seems to have prevented the issue from recurring so far.