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

If you wish 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 original link without clicking it.

Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody should be helping our students do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the methods that we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

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Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for lots of years. There is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to just add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

There is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I utilized in my current Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my original discussion URL and see when I developed the shortened URL..
See this brief video to see how you can use the “+” trick to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

As I do every year, Im taking this week as a break from publishing new article and will be republishing a few of the most popular posts of the year. Heres one from April.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a signed up user I can produce customized, reduced URLs that people can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

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