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 in other places, it has actually been utilized without approval.

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody need to be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

The technique is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the original link was that got reduced. You can then decide if you desire to click through to the destination 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 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.

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 couple of people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
TinyURLs..

Ive attempted the “+” technique with a bunch of other URL shortening tools and TinyURL is the just one besides Bitly that Ive discovered it to work with..
Whats the trick?