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

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for good reasons. Some people use them to conceal nefarious links. There is a simple way to quickly determine 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 add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the original link 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 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 developed the reduced URL..
See this brief video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to find out whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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

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

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Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can produce 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 presentation due to the fact that the default URLs supplied by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

If you desire 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 on it.

Bitly is a handy URL shortener that Ive utilized for many years. There is a simple method to quickly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to simply 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.

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

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