Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, constructing good digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that all of us ought to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the ways that we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has actually been utilized without permission if you see it in other places. Websites that regularly take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive at a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the original link was that got reduced. You can then decide if you want 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 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.

Last week I composed
a blog post about how to see whats concealed behind a Bitly reduced URL without really clicking on the link. The trick is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. If the that worked with other URL reducing services, a couple of individuals emailed me to ask. The response is it works with
TinyURLs..

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

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 shortening services. If you see it in other places, it has been used without consent.

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