How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services. If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been used without approval.

Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, building good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everyone should be helping our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

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

Last week I wrote
a post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly reduced URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. If the that worked with other URL reducing services, a few individuals emailed me to ask. The response is it deals with
TinyURLs..

The technique is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the initial link was that got shortened. You can then choose if you wish to click through to the location or not.
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, but adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking it.

Ive tried the “+” trick with a lot of other URL reducing tools and TinyURL is the only one besides Bitly that Ive found it to work with..
Whats the technique?

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has actually been utilized without authorization if you see it in other places. Sites that frequently take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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