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

Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, developing excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everyone need to be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

Last week I wrote
an article about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly shortened URL without in fact clicking on 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 individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services. The response is it works with
TinyURLs..

The trick is to include “+” 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 utilized without approval.

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the original link was that got shortened. If you desire to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you desire to try this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, but 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.

Ive attempted 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 trick?