The link at the end of every bait-and-switch since 2007, and the reason nobody fully trusts a shortened URL.
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Never Gonna Give You Up sits in Prank Toys under Laugh, filed as instant.
About this category: Fake screens, fake alerts and gag generators. Aim them at friends rather than strangers and nobody gets hurt.
Yes. Never Gonna Give You Up is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Never Gonna Give You Up without signing up for anything.
Yes. Never Gonna Give You Up works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
A shelf of harmless fake screens — cracked display, virus alert, retro desktop — meant for a colleague's unattended laptop.
An air horn in a browser tab, installable offline, built by Google engineers as a demo and adopted as a weapon.
Spawns browser windows that dance around the screen and refuse to sit still, harmless but genuinely infuriating.
A small publisher of deliberately pointless web projects, including several gag sites you have probably been sent.
UK spoof news updated several times a day, best read as running commentary on whatever is currently going wrong.
A ninja, flexing, to a backing track, at a frame rate suggesting nobody involved was trying especially hard.
Retail and service workers' stories about customers, filed daily, and a bottomless argument for tipping generously.
The pop-tart cat, the rainbow and the song, with a counter for how many seconds of your life you have handed over.
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