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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that everybody ought to be assisting our students do. Showing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the methods that we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

The technique is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to land on a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got shortened. If you want to click through to the location or not, you can then choose.
If you desire to try this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, but adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking on it.

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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 reducing services.
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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. If you see it elsewhere, it has been utilized without approval.

Ive attempted 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 trick?

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