The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)

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

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

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

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

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

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For funsies I shortened https://creepylink.com

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

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

Use case? Besides humor and phishing tests

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

My favorite link of all time:

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

Definitely not meta

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

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

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.

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]+

lol, I'm not clicking a .vbs link

This had to be done:

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

Fantastic! I miss the original ShadyURL.

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

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.

Please take my upvote. :)

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

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

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

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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.

I can just say thanks