The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

There may actually be some utility here. LLM agents refuse to traverse the links. Tested with gemini-3-pro, gpt-5.2, and opus 4.5.

edit: gpt-oss 20B & 120B both eagerly visit it.

What's up with the creepy ads on this website? It seems like they are actually sketchy ads and not just fake ads for comedic effect. One shows some scammy nonsense about your device being infected and the other links to a real VPN app.

My favorite link of all time:

https://jpmorgan.c1ic.link/logger_zcGFC2_bank_xss.docm

Definitely not meta

Related: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy (434 points, 2023, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609461

I wouldn't call it a shortener, since most of the links it creates are longer than the originals.

What would be a good name here? A URL redirector?

IIRC, shadyurl was the original version of this. Doesn't seem to be around anymore, though.

This is legit! If you disable your adblock you even get a suspicious ad

https://jpmorgan.c1ic.link/G4JQKX_money_request.dll

This had to be done:

https://wellsfargo.c1ic.link/TODO_obfuscate_url_8wyS7G_hot_s...

This is the best article on Wikipedia!

https://c1ic.link/bzSBpN_login_page_2

Edit: Chrome on Android warned me not to visit the site!

I'm not sure what the use case for this is, but I've been using it as a inefficient messaging service with my girlfriend, ie:

https://c1ic.link/campaign_WxjLdF_login_page_2.bat

You seem to be able to encode arbitrary text, so long as it follows [A-Za-z0-9]+\.[A-Za-z0-9]+

Saw this on relaunched Digg and figured HN would appreciate it.

Fantastic! I miss the original ShadyURL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386108

I like how old-school HN comment section does not care about creepy links at all. Or link for that matter.

This is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend works.

For funsies I shortened https://creepylink.com

And got: https://c1ic.link/account_kPvfG7_download_now.bat

Is this suspicious: https://microsoft.c1ic.link/0B7jqd_invoice.vbs ?

I can just say thanks

I am sharing content using these creepy links to send to office people.

Haha, it's fun. Just thinking, is there some place where creepy links would be better ?

Please take my upvote. :)

Use case? Besides humor and phishing tests

For humour I shortened "https://www.facebook.com/"

And got https://twitter.web-safe.link/root_4h3ku0_account_verificati...

lol, I'm not clicking a .vbs link

It is hilarious and i'm not clicking any link lol.

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Please don't make any more URL shorteners, they are just a bad idea.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam