How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

Recently I wrote
a post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly reduced URL without in fact clicking the link. The trick is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. A couple of individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services. The answer is it works with
TinyURLs..

The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A few people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it somewhere else, it has been used without authorization.

The trick is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got reduced. If you desire to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you want to try 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.

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, developing good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us ought to be assisting our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has actually been utilized without authorization if you see it in other places. Websites that regularly steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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