What even is the point of URL shorteners? I always understood it as a Twitter thing, but I see them more outside of Twitter.
I think sometimes it gives people analytics on how many people click the link when the link is to something they themselves don’t control. But I’m not entirely sure if that’s a common service shorteners offer.
aesthetics
When sharing links with people in places where there’s a character limit or to avoid polluting visuals.
Also, when sharing like orally or showing it to someone else when you have no other way to communicate it: ex, the link of a shared cloud file
Infuriatingly, URL shortners are often used in QR codes because they have a character limit-ish (longer strings make for more detailed QR codes, which are harder to scan from further away so it’s a trade-off). but if the QR points to a shortened link then it’s more difficult to assess where a QR code is pointing without blindly following the link.
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In Germany, we have https://fckaf.de/
Lol, they’re even offering emails? Thanks for sharing!
A very good service by DIE PARTEI
Of course it would be them. Love it. Thanks for the link!
https://login.ic6do.com/Cvn6qa_video_player_update.pl
Definitely would not normally click
I totally believe this works, but there’s no way I’m clicking on any of those links
Here’s my creepy link: https://verify.ic6do.com/Y8kl04_system_optimizer
Here’s the link to this very post: https://update.ic6do.com/PFUTPY_secure_login_page.scr
A similar one here: https://phishyurl.com/
Holy shit, they’re not messing around, and that’s with the “Normal” setting
Also love the alleged directory structure
Absolutely scary 😬 But link “shortener” may be the wrong name in this case
I don’t think it purports to be a shortener, just a susener
Exactly what I expected. Thanks for not letting me down.
listen here, you little shit
Cm0002:
waltzes into chat about deceptive links
clicks a deceptive link
realizes they have been deceived
Cm0002: “No, it is the person who posted the deceptive link who is wrong”.
Lmao, it’s less about the deception and more about where it led to 😂
Its all good. I’m glad it came across as good natured ribbing, lol.
Jokes on you I saw the ad first.
3/4 of screen space filled with ads, how do you live like this?
I don’t use yt on my phone. I was actually interested what op put behind the link. I thought it would be a rickroll, but yk, I had to click it. I know, it hurts me too, seeing other people suffer so many ads. Also this is my newest phone and I don’t have the time to spend tinkering around ad free stuff.
Once you see the XcQ it’s too late.
It’s true. If you recognize the URL enough to avoid it, then you’ve been rickrolled without even clicking it. Wirelessly brain rickrolled
Based on these ads, I do not trust the site anyway.
Love the concept, though.
Ad for an ad-blocker. Genius 🤣
Probably the only ad ever to hit exactly and only the correct target demographic.
Doubtful. If you still have ads in 2026 you never valued your own time, software, or consent anyways.
Or maybe you like supporting creators and in general pay people for their goods and services.
I’ll just buy their products or use affiliate links or whatever. I’m not paying with my privacy or security for anyone.
I support creators I like, ad revenue goes mostly to corpo and not them so I block ads, simple
I wonder if it would be effective at blocking its own ads… 🤔
For a fee, probably
Looks like it got too creepy for its own good.
Link shorteners and redirectors, especially new and lesser-known ones tend to get caught in the fray with things like Google Safe Browsing (which FF uses as well) and Smart Screen.
It’s because the original/shortened link gets reported and not the real/destination site. Then the domain (of the shortener/redirector) gets flagged, instead of the real site.
This happened to me at work this very week, with a redirector service that’s a part of our email security stack. FF and Chrome were both blocking links that were safe, because the redirector service itself was classified as sus.
Firefox on Android doesn’t even have the “ignore” option :(
Pretty sure its under a more info dropdown
I didn’t have that, but I use Firefox Nightly.
And I also just found I can no-problem go to https://revoked.grc.com/ 😬
So it doesn’t even check for revoked certificates (but at least Fennec does).
This looks like an awesome project idea to steal
Firefox is not playing around
My ISP, O₂CZ (who collaborates with an Israeli cybersecurity company to “protect” (and spy on) everyone with default DNS settings) also blocks this one
this got me rickrolled (after so long)
CreepyLink to CreepyLink: https://web-safe.link/root_EXyoFH_claim_gift_card.mp4
Thunder app tries to load mp4 💀
