Thursday, December 13, 2007
How to Avoid being Rickrolled....
First we define Rickrolled...
To be Rickrolled is when browsing internet forums, one comes across a link in a thread expecting to find one thing, but ends up at a website which has nothing to do with the topic being discussed in the thread.
The name Rick refers to 80s pop singer Rick Astley. This refers to the ebaumsworld epidemic where people linked a "really awesome video" and it turned out to be Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Now most of the time a Rickrolled link will bring you to youtube.com or something similar. The easy way to defeat this is to disable Javascript in your browser. This will stop the youtube rickroll. However, sites like internetisseriousbusiness.com will have a flash version. Uninstall flash and you are done.
To be Rickrolled is when browsing internet forums, one comes across a link in a thread expecting to find one thing, but ends up at a website which has nothing to do with the topic being discussed in the thread.
The name Rick refers to 80s pop singer Rick Astley. This refers to the ebaumsworld epidemic where people linked a "really awesome video" and it turned out to be Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Now most of the time a Rickrolled link will bring you to youtube.com or something similar. The easy way to defeat this is to disable Javascript in your browser. This will stop the youtube rickroll. However, sites like internetisseriousbusiness.com will have a flash version. Uninstall flash and you are done.
