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[FF Addon] Sick of being Rickrolled? Stop Rickrolls loading - Mark - 26-09-2010
Stop Rickroll attacks with RickRemoval
Are you the victim of frequent Rickrolls? The time-honoured, and now frequent trend of being tricked into thinking you were seeing one video and ending up seeing a rendition of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" instead?
Well then we have some good news for you: there's a new Firefox add-on called RickRemoval that solves this problem entirely. Install it, and it will do a quick check on the page, as it's loading, to spot Astley's video and keep it from playing. It's also nice enough to put up a little message alerting you to the fact, and offering to load it anyway.
The add-on works off blacklists of well-known Rickroll video pages and video links, along with scouring any site that's not on that list to look for words or phrases that look suspicious.
RE: [FF Addon] Sick of being Rickrolled? Stop Rickrolls loading - latch - 21-11-2010
You can also hit the escape button or have Flashblock installed and just don't hit play!