How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

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

The technique is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the original link was that got shortened. You can then decide if you want 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, but including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking on it.

Ive attempted the “+” trick 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 trick?

Last week I wrote
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.
TinyURLs..

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.

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

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