How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

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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. If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been used without permission.

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 trick?

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, building good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody should be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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 shortened. If you want to click through to the location or not, you can then decide.
If you wish to try 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 initial link without clicking on it.

Recently I wrote
The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
TinyURLs..

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