Last week I wrote
a post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly reduced URL without really clicking on the link. The technique 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 couple of people emailed me to ask. The answer is it deals with
TinyURLs..

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Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, developing excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everyone must be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

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 reducing services. If you see it somewhere else, it has actually been used without permission.

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 original link was that got reduced. If you desire to click through to the destination or not, you can then choose.
If you desire to attempt 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.

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