What’s Hidden Behind a Bitly Link?

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Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities is something that all of us ought to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little suggestions like this one to prevent clicking suspicious links is among the manner ins which we can help our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive used for several years. As a signed up user I can create custom, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I require to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion due to the fact that the default URLs provided by those services are constantly long and incoherent..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive utilized for numerous years. There is an easy way to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.

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Sadly, not all Bitly users are using them for excellent factors. Some people use them to hide wicked links. Fortunately, there is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without actually clicking on the link. The trick is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original 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..
You can try this technique with a URL that I just recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you straight to a copy of the slides that I utilized in my recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my initial presentation URL and see when I produced the reduced URL..
View this short video to see how you can use the “+” technique to learn whats concealed behind a Bitly link..

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