Tiny URL is a great tool for shrinking long URLs for easy insertion in email, blogs or otherwise online. But spammers use them to take you places you didn’t care to go. Now there is a tool to undo the tiny url to see the original url—Embiggen.
Simply drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar and when you see a tiny url, click the embiggen bookmarklet—bam! No hijacking. I put Embiggen next to my tiny url bookmarklet. Works great.
via Freshblog.
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This seems like a great tool but how do you know it has been shrunk down in the first place? I guess I haven’t paid much attention to it. Maybe that’s why I get so much spam!
The shrunken tiny url will look like this:
http://tinyurl.com/
or this (from snip):
http://snipr.com/1nef4
On a shrunken URL there is no indication of which website it came from.
Embiggen will reveal the original url.