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Applications for EducationAs I composed last week, developing excellent digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone must be helping our students do. Showing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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 in other places, it has actually been utilized without consent.

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got reduced. You can then choose if you wish to click through to the location or not.
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, however including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking it.

Recently I composed
a blog site post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced URL without in fact clicking the link. The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. A couple of people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. The answer is it works with
TinyURLs..

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

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