Comments on the JoshMeister on Security: How to Preview Shortened URLs (TinyURL, bit.ly, is...

AWESOME POST!!! JUST SHARED WITH FRIENDS ON FACEBO...

2011-04-20T12:21:13.087-07:00

AWESOME POST!!! JUST SHARED WITH FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK AS THE FB Groups are turning into spam source by many apps.. click any link and it will spam all the groups you are subscribed to.. Was sick.. I m happy now that i found a solution..

super helpful resource. i've shared it w/cowor...

2011-03-23T08:43:46.258-07:00

super helpful resource. i've shared it w/coworkers. i was sick of getting random shortened links in chat messages from "friends". never trusted them & now i can know for sure.

The plus sign for bit.ly URLs is really handy to k...

2011-02-05T15:01:55.508-08:00

The plus sign for bit.ly URLs is really handy to know, since I'm a Twitter addict. Thanks!

Adding the + to a http://goo.gl/ shortened url wil...

2010-11-25T16:11:39.993-08:00

Adding the + to a http://goo.gl/ shortened url
will take you to a page that decodes it.

Ooh - very useful info - thanks for collating it a...

2010-11-25T13:35:06.845-08:00

Ooh - very useful info - thanks for collating it all.

For goo.gl URLs, it seems that adding a + sign to the end of a goo.gl URL works. I've only tried this experimentally and don't know if it's official? The plus sign seemes to take you to a URL containing an extra /info/ which decodes the URL.

So
http://goo.gl/{characters}+

takes you to
http://goo.gl/info/{characters}

What about the URL shortener from Google - http://...

2010-11-24T23:11:15.670-08:00

What about the URL shortener from Google - http://goo.gl/

Regarding Eric Hellman's comment above, please...

2010-05-27T08:48:48.784-07:00

Regarding Eric Hellman's comment above, please note that I did NOT recommend the "bit.ly preview" Firefox add-on. The directions in this article explain how to manually discover the full URL to which a bit.ly link will redirect. The browser extension that I mentioned in the follow-up article is called LongURL Mobile Expander and is maintained by a third party unrelated to bit.ly.

A note on the Firefox bit.ly Preview addon- it lea...

2010-05-27T08:26:14.787-07:00

A note on the Firefox bit.ly Preview addon- it leaks the users entire browsing activity to bit.ly. See the post on Go To Hellman.

Great article. I just linked to it to raise the aw...

2010-05-23T21:08:31.918-07:00

Great article. I just linked to it to raise the awareness of my family regarding shortened URLs. Hopefully, it will help them keep from getting their Facebook accounts hacked!!!

Thanks for the post. Very useful.

2010-03-03T03:16:27.940-08:00

Thanks for the post. Very useful.

I was looking for a way to do this, and it seemed ...

2010-02-17T06:18:56.356-08:00

I was looking for a way to do this, and it seemed like the only option was to install the Firebox bit.ly preview add-on, which has gotten horrible user reviews. So thanks! I'm going to tweet about this right now, since eeeeeeeveryone on Twitter is using bit.ly.

Three of the most popular URL Shortners offer the ...

2010-02-06T09:55:32.630-08:00

Three of the most popular URL Shortners offer the "preview" feature - is.gd/xyz-, preview.tinyurl.com/xyz, and bit.ly/info/xyz. If you want to build the functionality into your website(s) so that all shortened URLs are previewed, download the javascript at http://www.URLatex.com. Then your visitors will always know what they are clicking on.

Great article just what I was searching for "...

2009-08-11T06:24:56.066-07:00

Great article just what I was searching for "How to preview shortened URL's" I created a tinyurl of this page see the preview here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oeb6yc

Well Done Josh!

Josh, Very nice article . . . I gave a link to i...

2009-06-23T04:28:44.680-07:00

Josh,

Very nice article . . . I gave a link to it from my "CyberCrime & Doing Time" article talking about Twitter and dangerous tiny URLs.

http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2009/06/fake-twitter-linkedin-and-scribd-pages.html

Good post. Very useful. Thank you.

2009-04-12T00:29:00.000-07:00

Good post. Very useful. Thank you.