How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, building good digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us should be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can assist our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

Last week I composed
The trick is to add “+” 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 reducing services.
TinyURLs..

The technique is to include “+” 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 somewhere else, it has been utilized without permission.

Ive attempted the “+” trick 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?

The trick is to include a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that reveals what the original link was that got shortened. You can then choose if you want 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 including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the original link without clicking it.

This post initially appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it somewhere else, it has been used without approval. Sites that routinely take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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