URL-shortening services such as bit.ly and SnipURL have been around for a while. They’re very handy for shortening long links, but they do present a risk, since they disguise the original website address. Clicking on an innocent-looking bit.ly link could result in browsing to a site that could infect your computer. How can you protect yourself?

Untiny is a website where you can paste a short address and find out its original website address. This is helpful, but it would be even more helpful if this “translation” was done for you automatically.

Firefox add-on UntinyFox does this for you. Take a look at the screenshots of our Twitter page below. Voila! The original DownloadSquad.com link is revealed.

Check out Firefox add-on UntinyFox as another way to protect yourself in your web browsing.

Firefox without Untiny

Firefox with Untiny