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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. As a signed up user I can develop custom-made, shortened URLs that individuals can really spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody must be helping our trainees do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to merely include 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.
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I just recently shortened. 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 discussion URL and see when I produced the reduced URL..
View this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for many years. There is an easy method to quickly identify 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 include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

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