Trick to check the true link of the shortlink quickly

There are a lot of shortened link services (shortlink), often like goo.gl, tinyurl.com, bit.ly . Shortening links makes long-term links retract very neatly, convenient for sharing them with everyone. Some shortened services link provides some features such as statistics on the number of clicks, which number of clicks comes from .

That is the advantage of shortening the link, but there are cases where some bad guys take advantage of shortlinks to link to websites with bad content or to websites containing malicious code to steal user information. Knowing the true link of a shortlink is essential.

Use IDM to view shortened links

You can know the true link shortlink very easily with the familiar download acceleration program IDM.

In IDM interface, select Add URL , then enter shortlink to check the Address> OK box . Immediately the real link will "show the image" in the Download File Info dialog box. If you find the website you want to access securely, you can safely use this shortlink.

Use Unshorten.me to check the shortened link

This is a fairly accurate shortened link checking tool. This tool can view shortened links, get the full link of many shortened link services like goo.gl (Google), fb.me (Facebook), t.co (Twitter), bit.ly, TinyURL, ow.ly, etc.

To view shortlink quite simply, you just need to follow these steps:

1. Open Unshorten.me website on your browser: https://unshorten.me/
2. Shortlink copy needs to be checked
3. Paste in the link box on the website, click Unshorten

1. See the results immediately below including: destination link, destination server, source URL and source domain

From this result you will know where the shortened link will take you, whether it is safe or not.

Use Unshorten.it

Similar to Unshotern.me, Unshorten.it provides the ability to show real links of many shortlink services. In the returned result, the Unshorten issues some security warnings about that shortlink via the Web of Trust service, which includes

1. Trustworthiness: shortlink trust level.
   Vendor reliability: the reliability of suppliers.
   Privacy: privacy level.
   Child safety: safety for children.

Currently, Unshorten also provides extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers, download this extension here.

After successful installation, Unshorten will be added to the context menu of the browser, want to check which shortlink just right click on the link, select Unshorten this link .