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Rick Roll (Different link + no ads)

23.7M views · Jul 28, 2020 · 0:08 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2025

A zero-length alternate-link copy of the Rick Astley 'Never Gonna Give You Up' rickroll, made to avoid ads.

Why Hacker News points people here: Used purely as a rickroll joke link.

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Joke0xbadcafebeeApr 2025
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Pretty sure this is intentional to encourage doom scroll and to make the giant video titles and shocked-face-tiles easier to see and thus click on. Whatever gets you to click faster and make those ad dollars. I'm more than a little disgusted by how moronic we are made to look now that every video tile caters to the dumbest person with the most base instincts. If YOU aren't SHOCKED by this TITLE how will we get you to CLICK IT? :O :O :O MUST SEE this video BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING HN this video

in “Someone at YouTube needs glasses” · view on HN
JokejonbaerJun 2025
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-y, --yolo Automatically accept all actions (aka YOLO mode, see this video for more details)? [boolean] [default: false]

Jokerandom29ahSep 2025
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It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag. For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU. However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. this video this video While they worsen the user experience, other sites optimize their players and don't seem to care about downloaders (pr0n sites, for example).

in “Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads” · view on HN