You can attempt this with my Bitly link of.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2 which will take you to the registration page for my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter (.
https://practicaledtech.com/weekly-newsletter/). If you attempt the very same link but add “+” to the end of it so it reads like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I reduced my original URL.

Bitly is a hassle-free tool for producing short URLs to share in place of long URLs. Ive used it for many years to produce customized URLs that are easy for my students to type. Some people use Bitly to attempt to mask URLs to try to get you to click on wicked links. Thankfully, there is a simple way to see where a Bitly link will take you without needing to really click the link..
The trick is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the shortened URL is hosted and will show you what the original link was..

Ive created a number of brief video presentations of how this trick works. This is the Instagram video that I made about it. This is the YouTube video that I made about it.