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Friday, January 20, 2012

What is the target of a TinyURL link | Stop getting hacked by Tinyurl links

Tiny URL is a very popular link shrinking site like Adf.ly . You can short your website links by using Tiny URL. But there are some problems. When we received a link from our friend or someone else we don't know what is the real link. Normally Tinyurl links will look like this http://tinyurl.com/c9rocza This is the link for our Rss Feed page. When you see this link you don't have any idea about the target of that link. you might have seen some links on facebook chat saying "OMG" or "LOL" with some tinyurl link.. so people think that they are links for a funny video or a site and you will click on it. most times they are automated fb messages generated by a facebook virus. with this trick you can get notified when you open a tinyurl link. it will show you the target page and permissions to open it, it won't Auto redirect you till you choose to open it. if you don't trust the target page you can cancel it.
Short URLs are handy for using on blogs and websites without using longer hyperlinks. There are few URL shortner services which allows you to earn money when people use your links to visit other websites. only thing you have to do is put all links in your blog or web shrinked by their url shornter service. If you like to earn Money with URL Shrinking Read How to Earn online money with Adf.ly 
There are many url shorten sites. But Tiny url is very popular among them. If you want to see how it works, Just copy any link from a web site and go to tinyurl.com and make your tiny link.. they will give you a new link to login to your original link. Main problem with shorten links is the security threats. some people and viruses use these shortened links to spread their scripts and malware programs on internet and chat programs. so you have to be careful when opening those links. Thats why Tiny URL is great. that site allows you to look at the real link before you open it. lets see how we can use it.


Tiny url has a special feature that allows you to see the real link before you open it. They will install a cookie on your computer when you requested. after that when you open a tinyurl link, that cookie will tell tinyurl site to show a preview of the real link before open it.  First go to Tinyurl preview Pluggin page and click "enable previews." Now it will install the cookie on your browser. if you are using few internet browsers you have to add this to all your browsers. after installing the cookie Open http://tinyurl.com/c9rocza again to see check the plugin. it will show you the target page like this.


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