PrevURL: See Where Short Link Points Before Clicking On It

PrevURL is a simple website that lets you preview where that shortened link from emails or webpages points to before clicking on it.

PrevURL: See whats is Behind Shortened Link

This can come in quite handy for checking links in suspicious emails. There are two possible ways for you to make use of it:

1. Go directly to PrevURL website, paste the URL into provided field and see where it points.
2. Install the PrevURL brower plugin (for Firefox and IE) and preview links from browser search bar.

Features:

  • See where shortened URL is pointing to.
  • Works with all major URL shortening services.
  • No sign-up or registration needed.
  • Similar websites: LongURL.

Check out PrevURL @ www.prevurl.com

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