I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.
Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.
I see someone doesn’t understand the definition of Rick Rolling…
Dude… my kid will never get to experience this. I didn’t even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.
What app are you using? The dev clearly knows their shit
LOL! What app are you using to give such a warning?
Sync, it was my reddit client for years
This is just false, I don’t know where you got this idea
If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.
Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such
I dunno how you sleep at night
Very well, actually. You should check out !SleepTips@lemmy.world, it might change your life!
I hate you
I disagree. This is an important issue
relevant username
You can’t do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?
exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads
Thank you. I needed this.
Omg did you just reinvent YouTube?!?
Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
Sad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
Yup I will usually happily walk into a rick roll. I just enjoy the music. lol
Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
Lazy, I just recognize the url from getting rick rolled so much.
XcQ
A friend of mine helped me set up a Star Trek automation where the lights turn on and a Star Trek LCARS video plays on my TV.
Went to demo it only tk discover he’d changed the link to a rickroll. I love that trolling bastard
lmao that’s a good one
XcQ, link stays blue
Eh, too much work.
XcQ, no thank you!
You aren’t doing youtube correctly.
PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube
Mobile: revanced, newpipe
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How does one Rick roll people who don’t do YouTube correctly, which is most everyone?
Those people? We don’t interact with those people.
Touché
FreeTube has an Android fork now that works just as well as the PC version.
https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases
Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
Honestly, I have Firefox + ublock origin in Mobile too
Same.
I have all 3 options on mobile as well
and sponsorblock 👌
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.
And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.
What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.
Fuck u peasant! What are you going to do about it?
Pirate Content?
Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
🐸
Even premium isn’t safe nowadays
dwXcQ
Nippy Kind Langur
Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/never-gonna-give-you-up/1559900284Oh, oh, oh! Thanks! I think I’ll click on it right now.
Ed. Damnit
Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?
I give up, this has really let me down.
Just use a different site here
Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
you motherfu-
Cant you just use a thirdparty youtube ui url?
I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads.
Tenor’s has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
Wow, a legitimate use case for shorts.
Nice! May I recommend you share that with all of our professional rickrollers? (Or may I share it there?)
I’ve literally rickrolled thousands of people and i didn’t hesitate for a second to click on that link. wow. (﹏;)
Go for it!
