Filed under: Security, Web services
It’s trendy to use the latest and greatest URL shortening services in IMs and Twitter postings, but clicking on a TinyURL is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get. To avoid any nasty surprises, affiliate links, or other deceptive uses of TinyURLs, you can install a Greasemonkey script called TinyURL Decoder.
Although the name of the script contains “TinyURL,” that’s not the only service it works with. It can decode dozens of different flavors of shortened links. I’m impressed with the huge number of services this plugin includes, from the very popular (the aforementioned TinyURL) to the obscure (PeaUrl). Installing it should leave you well-situated to know where these sometimes-sketchy links are taking you.
Greasemonkey script decodes an impressive list of TinyURLs originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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