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

Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, constructing good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody ought to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

Recently I composed
a blog site post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly shortened URL without actually clicking the link. The trick 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 dealt with other URL reducing services. 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 people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it in other places, it has actually been used without consent.

The trick is to add 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 shortened. You can then choose if you wish to click through to the destination or not.
If you want to try 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 on it.

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it somewhere else, it has been utilized without approval. Sites that routinely take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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