What’s Hidden Behind a Bitly Link?

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Building great digital citizenship and cyber security abilities is something that everybody need to be assisting our students do. Showing them little pointers like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is among the ways that we can assist our trainees build their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent reasons. Some individuals utilize them to conceal wicked links. There is a simple way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The technique is to merely add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather 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 used in my current 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 created the shortened URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” technique to find out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has been utilized without authorization if you see it in other places. Websites that regularly take my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is an easy method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. As a signed up user I can develop custom, shortened URLs that individuals can really spell. I utilize these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides discussion since the default URLs provided by those services are always long and incoherent..

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