Here's how to tell what a bit.ly link's real address is before you click on it, so you can decide if you're interested or not.
Have you ever come across a bit.ly link? These links are abbreviations of the actual url links which are usually too long. So instead of having a huge URL to share with your friends, you can through it free bit.ly service to make a much shorter and easily manageable one in its place.
But there are times when such links lead directly to a file for downloading and you basically don't see where you're downloading from. And you may have doubts whether the website from which the file is downloaded is safe or not.
So if you're not so sure where one will point link bit.ly, you can preview the link before you finally click on it.
To do this, simply add a + sign to the end of any bit.ly link in your browser. For example, for https://bit.ly/3z8nsCV, just type https://bit.ly/3z8nsCV+ in your browser and you will be taken to a preview page for that link.
