What’s Hidden Behind a Bitly Link?

Not all Bitly users are utilizing them for excellent factors. Some people utilize them to hide nefarious links. There is a simple method to rapidly determine whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include 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 initial link was..
You can attempt this technique with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly 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 shortened URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to discover out whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for lots of years. There is an easy way to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without in fact clicking on the link. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the initial URL was.

Applications for Education.
Building great digital citizenship and cyber safety skills is something that everybody must be helping our students do. Revealing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking suspicious links is one of the manner ins which we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber safety skills.

Bitly is a convenient URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a signed up user I can produce custom, shortened URLs that individuals can really spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation because the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it elsewhere, it has been utilized without permission. Sites that frequently steal my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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