gHacks technology news » tinyurl http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 rickroll.it: Double RickRoll someone! http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/05/rickrollit-double-rickroll-someone/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/05/rickrollit-double-rickroll-someone/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:13:23 +0000 Joe http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10354 For too long, people have hid rickrolls in TinyURLs. A much better service to hide them in is rickroll.it. No one would suspect a thing!

The service is just a URL shortening service, but one I love to use because no one dares to click the link. I often post non-RR content in one of these, but I feel I have used the power of Astley to trick them nonetheless.

Rick Roll It! is mainly just a piece of fun but is fast and very user-friendly. Unfortunately, features such as ‘previews’ which TinyURL has are not available with rickroll.it.

This site is obviously primarily a tool for mischief.

A way to boost the Schadenfreude achieved through rickrolling someone, though, is to con someone into actually clicking a rickroll.it link, which leads to a rickroll. Like this one.

So, how many people can trick a friend with this one?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/05/rickrollit-double-rickroll-someone/feed/ 1 Url Revealer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/23/url-revealer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/23/url-revealer/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:02:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9301 Url shortening services like Tinyurl have seen an influx since the release of web services like Twitter. Twitter is a prime example as the services limits the amount of characters per message to 160 much like SMS on cell phones. Yes, you can write / send multiple messages but that’s not really the same, is it?

If you head over to Twitter and log into your account you most likely will see links of shortening services. While they make links shorter so that you can save chars they also hide the real address of the link which in its extreme could be used to lure users to a website they do not want to visit. This can have serious consequences depending on the location or place the links are accessed: Think of following a link leading to an adult site at work.

Long URL Please is a experimental Firefox extension that turns urls of shortening services to their original one. It currently supports about 30 different services with more being added regularly.

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The developers have created a bookmarklet as well which can be used if you work with other web browsers. Some users have claimed that the extension dropped the performance while surfing while others have not experienced it. It might depend on the speed of the computer and Internet connection.

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