With Firefox + uBlock Origin you can still be Rick Rolled!
I was gonna say, you guys get YouTube ads? I’m still blocking them, so I’m still a target for Rick-rolling.
I still get ads on my TV unfortunately.
If it’s an android TV, I can’t recommend SmartTube enough!
Now you missed a chance to link to Never gonna give you up
It’s alright, I already tricked someone into looking up a weird dick thing elsewhere on this post 😁
Works on Fire TV as well
If you have a Roku I can’t recommend Playlet enough.
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Are you sure your adblocker is working? I was having trouble with mine just yesterday when i found out ublock origin has an additional setting you need to click to keep blocking YouTube ads now
Heh, nice try. Sync for Lemmy saved me with their link preview.
But yes, sometimes you need to go into Ublock Origin’s settings and manually update to stay ahead of YouTube’s updates to their filter blocking.
Lol, i use sync as well! I noticed the same thing when i posted it… hoped perhaps you didn’t have the preview like i have… 😅 Figured it was worth taking a shot, in any case!
Never gonna rickroll you, never gonna let you get rickrolled https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/antirickroll
Yay! Like 5% of the market can still enjoy the prank.
The same 5% that recognize the URL and don’t fall for it
I still get a little chuckle and smirk whenever I see it though.
The 95% get hit with an even better Rickroll, the Skill Issue.
Good news, everyone! You can self-host the Rickroll via a docker container!
Bad news unfortunately, I’ve been too busy banging rocks together to know what docker is 🗿 :(
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I’ve come to find Lemmy is the land of the trans-programmer-communist and I’m here for it lol
cis-bisexual-programmer-communist here, we demand recognition
I’m just a cis tech savvy communist, but I like the cut of your all’s jib.
Y’all might even get me off of Windows!
You’ll be running Arch (btw) before you know it!
I once tried to install Manjaro and I have never managed to break something quite so badly as that Linux install. I have no idea what happened.
I’m more of a cis-gay-socialist, but I’m friends with a number of trans-programmer-communists!
Pretty sure docking is gay sex slang for putting penises in penises.
I verified it. It is an actual thing and it is actually called docking.
I’ll be right back, gonna bleach my eyes real quick.
I knew. I just said it in a silly way so poor victims like yourself would get tricked into checking 😛
Awesome example of dickrolling.
Never gonna dick you up, Never gonna cock you down
Never gonna run around and insert you
😁
That sounds painful.
I’ve just checked with my lawyer and there is no way you can get a penis to fit inside another penis, the size variance simply isn’t great enough between different penises
It’s more of a sort of foreskin interlocking thing, really.
Don’t ask me why you would do that, I have absolutely no idea 🤷
Btw, maybe don’t go to your lawyer for medical questions? Your dermatologist totally bungled that parking ticket dismissal hearing for you, after all…
I’ll have to check a diagram but that sounds a lot more doable. Looks like the yanks will be left on the sidelines for this one tho - famously low foreskin ownership rates over there.
I recently heard of a straight docking story. Strap not trans. Yes I immediately befriended both people. So no it’s not necessarily gay, but it almost always is
docker exec -it rickroll sh -c “echo ‘But…Why…?’”
I always look up “rickroll no ads” because of this. Also it’s a different YouTube url so those nerds who recognize the rickroll url won’t recognize my link
Here’s where I learned this trick, they have a lot of other cool stuff too: https://youtu.be/uHgt8giw1LY?feature=shared
I just see Rick Astley’s face with a play button. The main issue is that modern browsers disallow playing sound without user interaction.
“XcQ, link stays blue” doesn’t make me a nerd. :'(
I mean, I am, but I don’t think I’m allowed to be on lemmy if I’m not, so I don’t think it’s relevant.
i can’t believe i fell for this
I always look up “rickroll no ads”
Now that’s a red flag right there.
it’s a different YouTube url so those nerds who recognize the rickroll url won’t recognize my link
I love that automatic inline link previewing kills that tactic with disgusting ease lmao 🖕😘
Yea it’s pretty funny imo. I didn’t intend for it but it adds to the joke
One of my favourite things about the rick roll is how much Rick Astley embraces it, rather than being salty that his song got memed. He seems like a great guy.
He did an AMA on Reddit, and someone successfully rick rolled him. It was glorious, and he took it in stride.
please provide a link to that, I need to see it
I’d imagine monetization of the video with tens of millions of views doesn’t hurt.
Why wouldn’t he embrace it? It put him back into the spotlight after 20 years!
I’d rather get Rick rolled than watch an ad tbh
Skill issue, just use a different video, no one said it had to be the official, monetized one.
Also if your target doesnt have ublock then maybe they dont deserve to get rickrolled 🤔
It’s a privilege not a right.
Don’t unmonetized videos still play ads sometimes? I seem to remember that being a really questionable conflict of interest issue a while back (because it would mean it’s technically more profitable for youtube to demonetize your videos than monetize them).
You know the rules, and so do I.
yes but also no one said you had to use youtube
I guess we need to go back to goatse then
The warm welcoming gape
You dare speak its name??
Funny story. I recently tried to find it. Like actively searched for it… and came up with nothing but a few screen shots of the dudes face. I also tried to find any kind of gore or death images using any of the major searcg engines. (I wanted to send something horrible to a scammer that was texting me when I posted something for sale.)
The Internet of old has been sanitized to prevent finding undesirable things. It’s sad.
Short term solution: convince other users to use piped.video or FreeTube
Long term solution: convince creators to post on PeerTubethe second one will never work as there’s no audience, nor money to gather on peertube
If popular creators start talking about PeerTube, there will eventually be an audience there, which means there will be money too.
how will there be money without advertisements? just rely on donations?
I think most youtubers either have sponsors or Patreon. I don’t think they rely on YouTube’s ads anymore.
they don’t only rely on ads but it probably still plays a significant role
Try an Invidious instance: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Maybe commercialization is a good thing after all. 🤔
Oh I am sad now :(((((
The industry that allowed Rick-rolling to come into being wouldn’t exist without the free market
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