Web links are great, when you’re on the web. But if you need to read off or write down a web address, or URL, to someone else, anything beyond a simple domain name is going to be way too complicated. Ideally, you want something short and memorable. Enter link-shortening services like Bitly, Owly and others. These services convert long, ugly URLs to short, simple, memorable links. Unfortunately, this also obscures the actual link. When you click a shortened link, you have no idea where it will take you. Today, I’ll give you some tools that will allow you to determine the final destination and even see an image of the site without actually going there.

In other news: TikTok group teaches people how to hot-wire Kia and Hyundai cars; Twitter charges users for the least-secure two-factor authentication method; scam authenticator apps proliferation on the app store; Apple devices are being stolen after surreptitiously learning the lock codes; Google to launch Android Privacy Sandbox beta; Mozilla discovers huge discrepancies between actual privacy policies and the ‘nutrition label’ summaries on top Android apps; supermarkets track tons of user data via loyalty cards and apps; we need to create a much more robust and resilient internet; and the CEO of Safing answers a user question about Portmaster and SPN.

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