Lot of people might be familiar with the link shortening services provided by a lot of websites around the world after being started by the startup service Tinyurl.com.This was created to ease the social media of the long url’s being hogging up the space in the updates and also to provide simplicity for the social media users.
But sometimes you would want to see what’s on the other side of the url for some reason and this feature is available only in the start-up service Tinyurl.com,which provides with a preview of the link that you are about to visit.But there are lots of URL shortening services that don’t offer you this service.For this reason, here we demonstrate 2 separate tool for you to see the actual link of the shortened URL.
Option 1
The first option is for firefox users,here you need to install a plugin called ‘bit.ly Preview‘,which will be able to tell the exact link of the shortened url.So just install this plugin and restart firefox to complete the setup.
Option 2
Second option for all browsers,is a web based tool called Sucuri that gives you the exact link of the shortened link as well as checks the safety of the URL that is being visited.The safety of the visiting website can be found in alternate ways as explained in the previous post.But the main service this tool provides is the link recognition of the shortened url that is entered.Other similar tools are Expandurl ,KnowURL and Untiny
Hence there you have it,the 2 ways for you to find out what real link is hiding behind the shortened URL.Do leave your comments if you think i have missed out any such popular service or if you like to share your knowledge.:D
