RickRoll'D

cotter5480 HN recommenders · 2010–2019
97.3M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2007-05-15

The original Rickroll video, the bait-and-switch link prank built on Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'.

Used as a joke link when someone posts a suspicious or unexpected URL.

Watch on YouTube

3 comments from Hacker News

@relix2010 · in “Pushing Our (Tweet) Button”

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't find an option to disable using Twitter's own shortening service? As an extreme example, I find [LINK] less informative than [VIDEO] . If your site is still only at 3 characters ID, unlike Youtube, having a custom shortened domain from which users can tell what it is, generally, what they're clicking on, is a much better user experience than using a universal shortener which says nothing about the content.

@EGreg2019 · in “Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago”

When Facebook releases a tool to clear your history, how will you know it’s really cleared? It will probably work as well as these instructions you can already use to remove your digital fingerprint from Facebook and several other sites: [VIDEO]

@helb2019 · in “Firefox 70”

I don't know what iina is, but youtube-dl + mpv mentioned by Angeo34 does exactly that (stream videos without pre-downloading them). Youtube-dl just gets the stream URL and mpv plays it. And it's easy to use, just: mpv [VIDEO]