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

The technique is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the initial link was that got shortened. If you desire to click through to the location or not, you can then decide.
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, but 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.

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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 actually been utilized without permission.

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The trick 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.
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Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, constructing good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that all of us should be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little ideas like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Ive attempted the “+” technique with a bunch of other URL reducing tools and TinyURL is the only one besides Bitly that Ive discovered it to work with..
Whats the technique?