Applications for EducationAs I composed recently, developing good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us ought to be helping our trainees do. Showing them little tips like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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

Last week I wrote
The technique is to include “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
TinyURLs..

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 decide.
If you wish 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 it.

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

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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 reducing services. If you see it somewhere else, it has been utilized without permission.