The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the initial link was that got reduced. If you want to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you wish 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 initial link without clicking on it.

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

Recently I wrote
a post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced 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 it. A couple of people emailed me to ask if the that dealt with other URL shortening services. The response is it deals with
TinyURLs..

Ive attempted the “+” trick 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?

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Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, building great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us must be assisting our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

The technique 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 consent.