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Posted by dreadsword 1/15/2026

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible(creepylink.com)
807 points | 148 commentspage 3
Avamander 1/15/2026||
It would've been top-notch if it actually sometimes just used Outlook/O365 or similar vendor's "safelinks" redirector that they use.
bsza 1/15/2026||
Yeah but have fun explaining yourself to the police when the author abandons the project and an actual scammer ends up buying up all those domains.
autoexec 1/15/2026||
Every URL shortener is suspicious.

While this seems like it would make it harder for them I wouldn't be surprised if scammers eventually try to abuse this service too and I have no doubt that people would happily click these if they found in them in a phishing email, that said I give the folks behind this a lot of credit for having a way to contact them and report links if that happens.

zefhous 1/15/2026||
My city utility provider used secured-server.biz for billing for a long time. I always thought it was hilarious and very suspicious looking.
awesome_dude 1/15/2026||
For humour I shortened "https://www.facebook.com/"

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

vanc_cefepime 1/15/2026|
I added google.com and it spit out https://twitterDOTc1icDOTlink/install_Jy7NpK_private_videoDOTzip

Interesting that it spit out a .zip url. Was not expecting that so I changed all the “.” to “DOT” so I don’t get punished for posting a spammy link despite this literally being a website to make links as spammy and creepy as possible.

bmacho 1/15/2026||
punished by whom?
lzap 1/15/2026||
I like how old-school HN comment section does not care about creepy links at all. Or link for that matter.
TomMasz 1/15/2026||
This is great. It created a link to my personal site that Firefox blocked me from going to.
yc784567 1/15/2026||
This is cool, since the links are actually short, but for properly suspicious links I prefer phishyurl [1] .

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898

edit: fixed typo

victorevogor 1/15/2026|
Just wondering. so you bought c1ic.link and web-safe.link. That's very cool
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