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Half the time the link preview picks the wrong picture and sometimes even the quote. Twitter and Facebook would both be improved by disabling it. Hell, it might

• input_sh 6y ago
  I'd place that blame towards website owners. Both Facebook and Twitter are pretty open where they read that info from, and an owner can pretty easily pass those fields (it's just some <meta> tags in the <head> element). They also have their own validators: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ The only issue I'm aware of is that Facebook's crawler breaks about every two months or so.
  • seniorgarcia 6y ago
    What meta tags do I have to fill and why is Twitters/FBs preview suddenly my problem? >https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/overview/summary https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c... So, I should have to include twitter specific meta tags even though I personally don't care about twitter? Maybe twitter should make it clear which tags they read? Maybe it's SEO bullshit I don't care about? Maybe even even the OG: tags don't work all the time and result in dumb previews?
    • thatfunkymunki 6y ago
      If you don't want to fill them out, don't... Filling them out lets you customize your link preview on twitter. If you don't care about Twitter, why would this affect you at all?
      • 67868018 6y ago
        They're used by instant messengers too: slack, iMessage, WhatsApp, telegram, signal, ...