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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 individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services. If you see it elsewhere, it has been utilized without consent.

Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, building excellent digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us need to be helping our students do. Revealing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can help our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Last week I wrote
a blog post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly shortened URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking it. If the that worked with other URL reducing services, a few individuals emailed me to ask. The answer is it deals with
TinyURLs..

The technique 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. You can then choose if you wish to click through to the destination or not.
If you desire to attempt 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.

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

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