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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Disable Adblock to open shortened URLs?

Is it necessary to disable your Adblocking browser plug in to open some links? Well not really. It is possible to unlock those "Disable Adblock" locked links by checking the URL on the address bar of your browser.

What checking that complex url?  yes but they are not complex URLs. you can easily identify the part which is required to open the link without disabling the adblocking plugin. You just need to copy that part of the link and browse it in another tab.

Anyway just try to install latest version of adblocking plugin to avoid new ways of problems.

How shortened URLs are misused

Basically they were invented to short the lengthy URLs to reduce the amount of character used in a short message. It is mainly used in Twitter. But when social medias, and discussion boards started to block spam links, virus links.They used shortened URLs to mask spam/virus links. Because of that these days social medias are facing many troubles. That's why they always tell the users to report the links if you find it as spam/harmful/unwanted links or affected with it.

Is there any way to check or verify the shortned URLs? Yes there are many ways. You can find them in a simple google search "Check Short URL". You will get relevant useful online tools to check those links.