This seems like a vector for 1) malicious content (malware, spyware, cryptominers), 2) spam (referral links, MLM sites), 3) offensive content (shock sites, extreme pornography), 4) illegal content (child pornography, terrorist material).
5) harmless fun :)
I spent a few minutes looking for a good rickroll remix and found one that's pretty sweet and looks underappreciated in the view count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVGW-nbUg
It also has a popularity ranking, which at the moment has an usual shock site in 4th place...
#3 is the top third trending site listed.
Russian roulette is a vector for bullets, but presumably everyone knows that before they play.
Seems pretty easy for this to just turn into a way to spam-post a site you want people to visit. All you need to do is change the querystring on your URL and it lets you keep submitting it.
Or malware
They should have grouped the urls by the referrer, so you only get suggestions from the circle you come from.
This was the most disgusting thing I clicked on this month.
I like it. There's potential for abuse, sure, so I'm glad I got to try it before the spam battle begins :-)
I used bit.ly to shorten the URL for urlroulette(wouldn't let me use it otherwise.) Bet it would be pretty easy to just make it redirect to itself indefinitely with some kind of script or something.
Also, thankfully, I got homestar runner and not any of the things mentioned in other comments.
Well, I got the xvideos (a porn site) on first visit.
I got Playboy. What else did we expect...
i posted a porn site tbh. lol
This being on HN front page I expect same good quality. Hopeful I will find something interesting.
This needs a blacklist. Got "1 man 1 jar" on the first (and, you bet, the only) try.
Agreed. I too want everyone to know that I am very respectable and mature and disapprove of anything inappropriate, especially if it comes from the internet on a site whose sole purpose, (which I knew when I visited it) is to give you unfiltered links other users submitted.
Just says my url is invalid.
I got redirected to the Tailwind CSS site. Hacker News has left its mark.