Flying Squid to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agoWhen Rick Astley dies, no one will trust any links to his obituary.message-square27fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhen Rick Astley dies, no one will trust any links to his obituary.Flying Squid to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-square@miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoIt’s too late - somebody tried that scam years ago: Huge Astley’s Dead Scam
minus-squareGregorlinkfedilink0•3 months agoThis is actually pretty scary, viewer discretion is advised.
minus-square@newproph@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•3 months agoglad I checked the hyperlink. XcQ link stays blue
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilink0•3 months agoIf you open YouTube links in a new tab Firefox, they don’t autoplay. It’s very easy to avoid getting tricked in all sorts of ways if you do that and apparently the algorithm doesn’t care unless you actually start the video.
It’s too late - somebody tried that scam years ago:
Huge Astley’s Dead Scam
This is actually pretty scary, viewer discretion is advised.
Wow, I can’t believe he had that many people fooled!
glad I checked the hyperlink. XcQ link stays blue
If you open YouTube links in a new tab Firefox, they don’t autoplay. It’s very easy to avoid getting tricked in all sorts of ways if you do that and apparently the algorithm doesn’t care unless you actually start the video.