How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

The trick 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. You can then choose if you desire to click through to the location or not.
If you want 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 initial link without clicking on it.

Heres a video summary of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without in fact 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 few people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it in other places, it has been used without consent.

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, building good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone ought to be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little tips 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 security abilities.

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

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a blog site post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique 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 shortening services, a couple of people emailed me to ask. The response is it deals with
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