What’s wrong with people?
Can’t we just tweet and Snapchat in peace without everyone f**king with our phones?
There’s a really annoying new prank doing the rounds that is playing havoc with iPhones, iPads and even desktop computers.
Basically people are sending round a link to a site called CrashSafari…which ridiculously enough does exactly what it says on the tin.
Clicking on the link generates a burgeoning string of characters which Safari cannot process and it inevitably overwhelms the memory.
Your iPhone will heat up trying to process it before it’s forced to reboot.
Beware kids if u click a link and it pops up crash safari u gon be pissed af for the next 20 seconds
— The Marias Stan Account (@notbrokeboy206) January 25, 2016
Right now, lots of jokers are posting shortlinks to 'crashsafari․com'. The link will reboot your iPhone. Watch out. pic.twitter.com/3mZby5Xpo2
— @mikko (@mikko) January 25, 2016
You might think a website link called CrashSafari might be easy to spot, but the crafty b*stards are using shortened bit.ly and ow.ly links to hoodwink iPhone users.
It’s already done more than 100,000 people…
Wow. One “Crash Safari” short-link has been clicked on more than one hundred thousand times… pic.twitter.com/JqotjPiN1j
— F-Secure Labs (@FSLabs) January 25, 2016
It won’t ruin your phone, but it just p*sses people off…
If everyone could stop sending me the safari crash link that'd be fantastic
— Kaden the Banished (@mccoy_kaden) January 25, 2016
Crashing my iPod touch. #CrashSafari pic.twitter.com/gSlBmD8aKw
— Sean Sullivan (@5ean5ullivan) January 25, 2016
If you go to https://t.co/cfuhaPcviT, it will crash safari on iOS, the "world's most advanced mobile operating system".
— Brad Sams (@bdsams) January 25, 2016
these crashsafari links getting real corny
— Gennified (@Genetticz) January 25, 2016
Some helpful guys were even posting the offending link…
Beware, This URL Will Crash Your iPhone https://t.co/9dRiVLLH5z
— Daniel Buckward (@dbuckward) January 25, 2016
We preferred simpler times when where a good old-fashioned #RickRolling was king…
Oh look, there's a new Rickroll #CrashSafari #RickRoll https://t.co/qOLCYvlYH9
— Sonia (@gabardine) January 25, 2016
