With all the protections I have these days (UAC, Spybot immunize, safe
browsing warnings, etc), I don't feel the need for this, but if you must you
can see where these shortened links go before you click on them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636 . Equivalents available
in other browsers too.
TinyURLs always give me the heebies. You can *claim* it's for Something
> Wonderful when the TinyURL actually points to something nefarious.
>
You need an add-on for this? As Art said, for tinyurl.com, you add
"preview" for preview.tinyurl.com. Or go to http://untiny.me/ and insert
the shortened URL.
I use http://is.gd which needs only an ending hypen to get a preview, as
in http://is.gd/amyeC- . Is.gd is easy to remember and easy to type too
Thank goodness for tiny countries like Grenada and Tuvalu to give us
these domains--can they profit from this?. BTW, Art's URL example,
http://tinyurl.com/XXXXXXXXX gets you to a real site for unicycling.
Are shortened URLs really that scary??? BOOOOOOO! What's the real risk
that Something Wonderful turns out to be not so wonderful? Close the window.
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