True?

Rickrolling didn't teach us that, 2g1c made us cautious of clicking random links

'twas goatse that taught a young me to be more careful on the internet.
- Goatse and tub girl. And I was a whole ass adult who really needed to learn.
- Between 2g1c, goatse, and lemon party, I learned to always triple check every link I even think of clicking on.

A girl In had a crush on sent me the AlbinoBlackSheep "you are an idiot" site that caused a bunch of pop ups. Then she kept sending me links and funny videos and I got all indignant and annoyed because I thought all AlbinoBlackSheep links would be the "you are an idiot" thing.

Upon further review 20 years later she may have been flirting with me.

Anyway that's why I clicked the scam phishing link, boss.

Hot and funny single ladies from the 90s in your area, that love to talk about old internet nostalgia. So what are you waiting for?! Come join us.
That song will forever be in my head

XcQ it's staying blue.

Say, isn't there an xkcd about that? https://xkcd.com/2633/?
- 🧐
- Damn I was hoping the actual #2633 was gonna be relevant
- Link previews ftw
- It's about Astronomer Hotlines. But there actual xkcds that at least mention rickrolling, why not use one of them?
- god dammit
- Oh lawd. I gotta enable linl previews.
- 2633, kick them in the pp.
- They have a point.

Nope. I love that song.

Edit: Know what? I'm going to listen to it right now!

A rare self-rick-roll.
It's a catchy song. Here's an acapella cover by Home Free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_nRCCD0j-k
I just realized that I'm unable to remember the melody rn. I've heard the song a thousand times...
- https://youtu.be/A7xvRqnBRcY
- It sounds a bit like Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger, but slowed down a little.
- The internet is never gonna give you up

KnowBe4, a popular phishing simulation tool, actually has a built-in rickrolling template.

But are entirely defeated if you make a rule in outlooks saying trash any email that contains knowb4 in the header.

Not only do you pass all phishing tests, but you also don't get spammed by them when renewal comes around.

Phishme is the same. Add a rull saying trash as my email containing phishme.com in the header.
- The emails aren't from KnowBe4. They are from your HR or CEO or IT department. The links themselves are obvious on the hover though.

Goatse. I'm old.

Yeah, links used to be way more dangerous

Child you know not how good you have it with your Richard Roll.

Goatse.

Stealth edit: lemon party.
- Tub girl.

Her arms it's unusually long...

That's why you're never gonna give her up.
Yeah is giving vibes as shower thoughts by slender(wo)man
Spooky lady.
And her index finger looks fatter than her thumb. Either that or she has a cloven hand. Methinks AI
- I can't find the source on mobile but this image existed looooong before genAI was a thing.

My least favorite thing about the Lemmy community is that people hide the URLs.

Yeah, you can hover on a computer, yeah, you can change the real URL to something else, however

No bad stop :( You're supposed to be old people, act like you grew up when people were scared of random poisoned links

Some clients show link previews. I use voyager and get previews for all the links at the end of each comment with URL and link text shown. That's especially useful when people add links to a single letter which would be hard to hit otherwise
Most phone browsers will give you a link preview if you press and hold on a link.
- You mean Safari right?
  
  Because I haven’t seen this feature elsewhere, not mobile firefox nor chrome.

No, I still click random links to this day.

I have memorised the dqw4 part of the link so I know not to click it

Good thinking. But now I'm afraid that I just memorized something that I don't need to know. Also, the Dairy Queen uses W4 instead of WD40.

Eh. All the link previews have destroyed rickrolls.

Ironically, link previews can help avoid Rick rolls but can hurt security because the link needs to be looked at to generate the preview. If it exploits some flaw (rather than being a phishing thing) or just wants to track if the link has been loaded or grab the IP, then you don't even get to choose to not click it to avoid that.
Eh, you just have to adapt. Rickrolls hidden in valid seeming content, redirects from innocuous looking links, and just link shorteners can all obfusicate the actual content.