Regrettably, not all Bitly users are utilizing them for good factors. Some people utilize them to hide wicked links. Fortunately, there is a simple way to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking the link. The trick is to merely 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. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will reveal you what the original link was..
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I used 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 initial discussion URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
View this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

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Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everyone must be assisting our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

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, 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.

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

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for many years. As a signed up user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that people can really spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs offered by those services are incoherent and always long..