Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, building good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everyone must be helping our students do. Revealing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can assist our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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

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The technique is to include “+” 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 utilized without consent.

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the original link was that got shortened. You can then decide if you wish to click through to the destination or not.
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 original link without clicking on it.

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

Recently I composed
The trick 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.
TinyURLs..