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

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There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL 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 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 reduced URL..
Watch this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to discover whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

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 original link without clicking on it.

Applications for Education.
Building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everyone ought to be assisting our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. As a registered user I can develop customized, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I utilize these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs supplied by those services are always long and incoherent..

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

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for numerous years. There is an easy method to rapidly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.

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