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, however adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking it.

Applications for Education.
Building good digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that all of us need to be helping our students do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the ways that we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent reasons. Some individuals use them to hide wicked links. Luckily, there is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking the link. The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute 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 show you what the original link was..
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I recently shortened. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I used 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..
Watch this short video to see how you can use the “+” trick to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. As a registered user I can create 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 because the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and always long..

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

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to just include 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.

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