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Avoid Blind TinyURL Clickthroughs
Posted by Adam Pash at 8:00 AM on April 19, 2008
If you're regularly sent TinyURLs but have been burned one too many times by clicking through to an embarrassing link at the wrong time, head to TinyURL's preview page and enable previews. This old but useful feature will set a cookie in your browser, and henceforth all TinyURLs you click on with direct you to a landing page that will display the full link so you can make a more educated decision as to whether or not you should wait to visit the link. For similar solutions that change or preview TinyURL links on-the-fly, check out previously mentioned Embiggen bookmarklet or Tin Foil Hat.
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nestorius
Posted 8:57 AM 19/4/08
curses!
nestorius
nestorius
Posted 8:57 AM 19/4/08
:o caught it, thanks to this hack
nestorius
nestorius
Posted 8:56 AM 19/4/08
:o
caught it, thanks to this hack.
nestorius
2-7offsuit
Posted 8:25 AM 19/4/08
You mean like this? [tinyurl.com]
2-7offsuit
jstark101
Posted 10:02 AM 19/4/08
My money was on the link being YGRR even before I enabled the preview feature.
jstark101
legom
Posted 10:32 AM 19/4/08
Personally, I like the greasemonkey script "Tin Foil Hat" ([userscripts.org]) which shows the full url in the status bar. This is also a newer version ([userscripts.org]), which tries to expand the link in the webpage it's self, but based on the comments, it's not working 100% correctly.
legom
whoisvaibhav
Posted 3:11 AM 20/4/08
How about this one? [zombieurl.com]
(this is the zombified tinyUrl for LifeHacker)...
whoisvaibhav
nman
Posted 8:41 AM 20/4/08
You mean no one else realized this in the last 2 months it's been out?
nman
Gee101
Posted 8:48 AM 21/4/08
The Firefox addon at unshorten.com will show you the real location of a TinyURL as a tooltip and in the status bar.
Gee101