Ive developed a couple of short video demonstrations 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.

Bitly is a practical tool for developing brief URLs to share in location of long URLs. Ive utilized it for several years to develop tailored URLs that are simple for my trainees to type. Sadly, some individuals utilize Bitly to try to mask URLs to attempt to get you to click on wicked links. Thankfully, there is an easy method to see where a Bitly link will take you without having to really click on 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 show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..

You can try 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 same link however include “+” to the end of it so it checks out like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I shortened my original URL.