How many times have you clicked one of those TinyURLs only to load an undesirable page? There are ways to preview the TinyURLs before loading the page. Here are a few options:
Sites you have to enter the TinyURL to get the actual URL:
TinyURL.com’ solution:
- http://tinyurl.com/preview.php – After you visit this page and enable the feature, they set a cookie on your browser. Now when you click a TinyURL, you will see a preview of the actual URL on TinyURL.com. Then you can choose to proceed to the site or not. To remove the cookie and turn off this feature, just visit the same page again and click on “Click here to disable previews.”
FireFox Plug-Ins:
- Tin Foil Hat – This is a Greasemonkey script that displays the actual URL as a tooltip.
Bookmarklet:
- Embiggen – This tool expands the TinyURL. For a demo, just visit their website.
There are many other options out there, choose one you like and no more “oops! I didn’t mean to click that!”
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