Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, constructing great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody need to be helping our trainees do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our students build their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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. If you see it somewhere else, it has actually been used without consent.

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has been used without approval if you see it elsewhere. Sites that regularly steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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?

The technique is to add 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 reduced. If you desire to click through to the destination or not, you can then choose.
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 initial link without clicking on it.

Recently I composed
a post about how to see whats hidden behind a Bitly reduced URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. If the that worked with other URL shortening services, a couple of people emailed me to ask. The response is it deals with
TinyURLs..

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