URL shorteners are widely used by the online marketers, promoters and web entrepreneurs to promote their web link on the internet. URL Shortening is a technique of redirecting to a specific web page by clicking a short link. URL shorteneres are very useful to promote links on social media like twitter as twitter only allows a maximum of 140 characters in a single tweet, therefore almost 95% of twitter users share shortened links. Some of the top URL shorteners like bitly allows to track the total number of clicks on a particular link. There are few URL Shortners like bc.vc/ which also allow to monetize the links by placing the advertisements.
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Social media and security experts always give an advice to the internet users that they should not click on any anonymous and unpredictable links as they can be malicious. Yeah it is true, few of the users share spammy and phishing links to spread harmful codes and to steal user's sensitive informations. I have already shared in one of my previous articles that it is also possible to secretly steal the IP address of your internet friend by just using the URL Shortner. You may check the detailed article here .
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How To Uncover A Shortened URL !!
If you are stumbling on some social media or forum, and going to click on a shortened link, then to be on a safer side you must check the "Trust level" and original redirected web page before clicking on that unknown link.
URL Uncover Pro is a powerful web tool which is lightening fast in determining the short URL. Just paste any short URL in to the tool and it will tell all the secrets behind it including the trust level, screenshot, IP address of the webpage and original redirected web page link. It also tells whether the site is listed in the Spamcop.net or not.
URL Uncover Pro is a powerful web tool which is lightening fast in determining the short URL. Just paste any short URL in to the tool and it will tell all the secrets behind it including the trust level, screenshot, IP address of the webpage and original redirected web page link. It also tells whether the site is listed in the Spamcop.net or not.
Features:
- You can directly visit the webpage easily without clicking the shortened link.
- You can reveal the trustworthiness of the link by yourself.
- Check whether the webpage is listed on spamcop.net or not.
- Free, fast and extremely easy to use.
