The technique is to include 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 reduced. If you want to click through to the destination or not, you can then choose.
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 adding a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking it.

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

Applications for EducationAs I wrote last week, building excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everybody must be assisting our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

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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 individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
TinyURLs..

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

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 shortening services. If you see it elsewhere, it has been utilized without approval.