Best of 2021 – See What’s Behind Bitly and TinyURL Without Clicking

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Building good digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everybody need to be helping our students do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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Heres a video overview of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without really clicking the link.

There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I utilized in my recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my original presentation URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

As I do every year, Im taking today as a break from publishing new post and will be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year. Heres one from April.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, shortened URLs that people can really spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation since the default URLs provided by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

If you desire to try this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, but including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking on it.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive used for many years. There is an easy way to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

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