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How to Know The Actual Link Before Even Opening the Shortened URL

By dwarkarao
12-06-2009
The use or URL shortening services like TinyURL, bit.ly is increasing with each day. Users find these services as a great help to share links on social networks like Twitter and MySpace.

This is undoubtedly a great service as it squeezes any long URL to a short one. But we cannot make out the real web site that we would actually visit once we click on that link. This makes it threat in the eyes of many users.

Number of Firefox addons has come out to help us from this problem, but it is still a threat for the people using other web browsers.

LongURLPlease.com is an amazing service which helps us to find out the actual website even before clicking on any shortened URL regardless the web browser you are using. Simply visit LongURLPlease.com and drag its bookmarklet onto your web browser’s toolbar.

Whenever you need to find out the actual website even before clicking on any shortened URL, simply click on the saved bookmarlet and that is it. It will now display you the actual URL.

LONG URL PLEASE
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