How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, developing good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody must be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

Recently I composed
a post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. If the that worked with other URL shortening services, a couple of individuals emailed me to ask. The response is it works 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 exposes what the original link was that got shortened. You can then choose if you wish to click through to the destination or not.
If you want 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 it.

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

Ive attempted the “+” trick with a lot of other URL reducing tools and TinyURL is the just one besides Bitly that Ive found it to deal with..
Whats the trick?

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

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