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Tech Tip: Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats

Tech Tip: Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats
  • Posted December 23, 2010, 4:58 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, The Web
  • Today's ubiquitous URL shorteners are great for keeping character count at a minimum or to make sharing easier, but as convenient as shorteners are they also introduce some issues like obscuring the target URL destination.

    Fortunately, there are several ways to peek behind a shortened URL to see exactly where the link will take you before clicking it, so let's take a quick look at a few of them.

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