DavidR
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If you can’t see where a URL is pointing (click on the images I posted to expand them and you will see), you can’t make ‘any’ decision, if you can see it in it un-shortened form then you have a better chance of making an informed decision on what is displayed as the url if you want to go there.
How you make that informed decision I can’t say, it rather depends on your common sense in most cases as the url will look weird.