{"id":2024,"date":"2012-01-12T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:25:25","slug":"stay-safe-know-where-that-short-url-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/stay-safe-know-where-that-short-url-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay safe! Know where that short-URL goes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wheredoesthislinkgo.com\/\"><\/a>Someone sends a link, comments on your Facebook post, or you see an interesting link somewhere on the interwebs, but it&#8217;s that annoying <a href=\"https:\/\/bitly.com\/\">bit.ly<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">is.gd<\/a> link. Is it absolutely safe to click, or could it infect your computer with viruses?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFortunately, there is more than one tool out there that can tell us where that link really points to. The simplest of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/wheredoesthislinkgo.com\/\">Where Does This Link Go?<\/a> Plug in a short URL, and it spits out its destination. Simple as that!<\/p>\n<p>A more sophisticated tool is <a href=\"http:\/\/longurl.org\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">LongURL<\/a>, which not only gives you the destination URL, but some information from that website based on meta-data. Whichever tool you use, it&#8217;s ultimately up to YOU to decide whether or not to click on that link.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-2024\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">47.558739<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-122.409668<\/span><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends a link, comments on your Facebook post, or you see an interesting link somewhere on the interwebs, but it&#8217;s that annoying bit.ly or is.gd link. Is it absolutely safe to click, or could it infect your computer with viruses?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115,36],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Zt3y-wE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}