What’s Hidden Behind a Bitly Link?

Bitly is an useful URL shortener that Ive utilized for several years. As a signed up user I can produce custom-made, reduced URLs that individuals can in fact spell. I use these whenever I need to share a link to a Canva or Google Slides presentation since the default URLs provided by those services are incoherent and constantly long..

Bitly is a helpful URL shortener that Ive used for numerous 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 reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was.

Applications for Education.
Structure good digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that everybody should be helping our trainees do. Revealing them little ideas like this one to prevent clicking on suspicious links is one of the methods that we can help our trainees develop their digital citizenship and cyber safety abilities.

There is an easy method to quickly identify whats behind a Bitly URL without really clicking on the link. The technique is to just include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you add the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was.
You can attempt this trick with a URL that I recently reduced. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I used my recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. Bit.ly/ THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my original discussion URL and see when I developed the reduced URL..
See this short video to see how you can utilize the “+” trick to learn whats hidden behind a Bitly link..

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. It has actually been used without consent if you see it elsewhere. Sites that routinely take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin, TodayHeadline, and 711Web.

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