About RickRoll and Rick Roll Detector
What is Rick Roll?
Rickroll is an Internet meme involving Rick Astley's music video for his song "Never Gonna Give You Up". In a rickroll, a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the Astley video. (From Wikipedia).Is it common?
Lets look at some videos :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI, currently more than 8 MILLION views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU, currently more than 13 MILLION views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0, currently more than 7 MILLION views.
These links are phenomena.
These links are EVERYWHERE.
We must stop them!
What is Rick Roll Detector?
Rick Roll Detector is a firefox addon (extension) that recognize links which are pointing to rickroll jokes, and let you know about them before you click them. for example :
Do you see the "(RickRoll Detected!)" in the end? it shows this link is currently linking to a rickroll.
Rick Roll Detector will automaticlly update its database to block new rickroll links.
Why?
Stop those pranks from wasting your time! stop getting rickroll'd before you even click them.How do i install Rick Roll Detector?
Contributing
Can i help the world and report rickroll links?
Yes! First, you can go to Report Link section in this website and report online.Your second option is to use the extension itself. when you install the extension, you will have the fast possibility to right-click a link and report it as rickroll :
Can i help in any other way?
Yes, please contact here.
If you are firefox extension developer please contact.