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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, developing excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody need to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our students develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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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 individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
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Ive attempted the “+” technique with a lot of other URL reducing tools and TinyURL is the just one besides Bitly that Ive discovered it to deal with..
Whats the trick?

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 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 original link without clicking on it.

The trick is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it elsewhere, it has been used without authorization.