3 ms·The browser could read the canonical meta tag in the article HTML and just share that.by ec109685 9y agoThe browser could read the canonical meta tag in the article HTML and just share that.e12e 9y agoRight. But then you could provide a different canonical url on any site, altering which url is shared? (hence, I don't see how you could reasonably do this without "special casing").ec109685 9y agoGood point.