Applications for EducationAs I composed last week, building great digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everyone must be helping our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the ways that we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

The technique is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to land on a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got reduced. If you desire to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you wish 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 on it.

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

Ive tried the “+” trick with a bunch of other URL shortening tools and TinyURL is the only one besides Bitly that Ive discovered it to deal with..
Whats the technique?

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Last week I composed
a post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly reduced URL without really clicking the link. The trick is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on 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 “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A few individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it somewhere else, it has been utilized without consent.