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

Posted by dreadsword 1/15/2026

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

807 points | 148 commentspage 4

rendall 1/15/2026|

This is the best article on Wikipedia!

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

danielpetrica 1/15/2026||

As someone who built a standard shortener (coz.jp), this is hilarious. I spent so much time trying to make links look trustworthy; doing the exact opposite is a surprisingly fun concept.

unnouinceput 1/16/2026||

My link: https://update.web-safe.link/iy1bxm_money_request

zakki 1/15/2026||

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

jimnotgym 1/15/2026|

I think Microsoft have their own version of this

Msn.com Office.com Sharepoint.com Hotmail.com Etc, plus all the subdomains they insert before them. It makes it very easy to create phishing emails that look plausible.

Zambyte 1/15/2026||

microsoftonline.com is one of my favorites. Like how can you look any more scammy :D

CupricTea 1/15/2026||

The other day in a Facebook Messenger group chat I tried to link to https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ as a joke, but Messenger kept blocking it. It's quite overzealous with its blocking.

fancychancy 1/15/2026||

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

AnotherGoodName 1/15/2026|

I've been at a company that internally sends out fake links that log the user and links to an educational page on internet safety.

I honestly don't mind too much since it's a once a year thing (hacktober) and honestly companies should be trying to catch out employees who click any and all links.

trollbridge 1/15/2026||

We used to have fun hammering millions of requests to such URLs from a VPS when they would send such emails to role mailboxes.

Eventually we got asked to please make it stop. I asked them to please stop sending fake phishing emails to robots.

FuturisticLover 1/15/2026||

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

abhinai 1/15/2026||

Please take my upvote. :)

dizhn 1/15/2026||

Firefox is freaking out on some of these. It's hilarious.

neuroelectron 1/15/2026|

/instagram.c1ic.link/mCLIIp_free_vacation_offer.zip

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