Bitly is a hassle-free tool for creating brief URLs to share in place of long URLs. Some individuals utilize Bitly to attempt to mask URLs to attempt to get you to click on dubious links.
The technique is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the initial link was..

Ive developed a couple of short video presentations of how this technique works. This is the Instagram video that I made about it. This is the YouTube video that I made about it.

You can try this with my Bitly link of.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2 which will take you to the registration page for my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter (.
https://practicaledtech.com/weekly-newsletter/). If you attempt the very same link however add “+” to the end of it so it reads like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I reduced my initial URL.