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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a registered user I can produce customized, shortened URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation because the default URLs supplied by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

There is a simple method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to just include 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.
You can try this trick with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 initial presentation URL and see when I created the reduced URL..
See this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it in other places, it has been used without permission.

As I do every year, Im taking today 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.

If you wish to attempt 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.

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us must be assisting our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is a simple way to rapidly 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 include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

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