How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

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

The trick is to include “+” 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 shortening services. If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been utilized without permission.

The trick 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. 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 original link without clicking it.

Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, building good digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody need to be assisting our trainees do. Showing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the ways that we can assist our students construct their digital citizenship and cyber security skills.

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The technique 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 shortening services.
TinyURLs..

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

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