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Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
- codingdave 6y agoSeems pretty easy for this to just turn into a way to spam-post a site you want people to visit. All you need to do is change the querystring on your URL and it lets you keep submitting it.
- cm2187 6y agoOr malware
- huhtenberg 6y agoThis needs a blacklist. Got "1 man 1 jar" on the first (and, you bet, the only) try.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- sthnblllII 6y agoAgreed. I too want everyone to know that I am very respectable and mature and disapprove of anything inappropriate, especially if it comes from the internet on a site whose sole purpose, (which I knew when I visited it) is to give you unfiltered links other users submitted.
- csunbird 6y agoWell, I got the xvideos (a porn site) on first visit.
- rsa25519 6y agoI like it. There's potential for abuse, sure, so I'm glad I got to try it before the spam battle begins :-)
- Ansil849 6y agoThis seems like a vector for 1) malicious content (malware, spyware, cryptominers), 2) spam (referral links, MLM sites), 3) offensive content (shock sites, extreme pornography), 4) illegal content (child pornography, terrorist material).
- soared 6y ago5) harmless fun :)
- jjoonathan 6y agoI spent a few minutes looking for a good rickroll remix and found one that's pretty sweet and looks underappreciated in the view count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVGW-nbUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVGW-nbUg
- lifthrasiir 6y agoIt also has a popularity ranking, which at the moment has an usual shock site in 4th place...
- discreditable 6y ago#3 is the top third trending site listed.
- swirepe 6y agoRussian roulette is a vector for bullets, but presumably everyone knows that before they play.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoJust says my url is invalid.
- z3t4 6y agoThis being on HN front page I expect same good quality. Hopeful I will find something interesting.
- zsellera 6y agoThis was the most disgusting thing I clicked on this month.
- grawprog 6y agoI used bit.ly to shorten the URL for urlroulette(wouldn't let me use it otherwise.) Bet it would be pretty easy to just make it redirect to itself indefinitely with some kind of script or something. Also, thankfully, I got homestar runner and not any of the things mentioned in other comments.
- unlog 6y agoThey should have grouped the urls by the referrer, so you only get suggestions from the circle you come from.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- Shared404 6y agoI got redirected to a political spam site. I have to agree with Ansil849's assessment.
- edwardwatson 6y agoI got redirected to the Tailwind CSS site. Hacker News has left its mark.