YouTube link preview not working on WhatsApp and other similar apps for many

Link previews allow users to have a sneak peek into the kind of content a link has in store, since links alone don’t convey much. This essential feature, however, isn’t working for several users. Upon trying to share YouTube links on WhatsApp and some other similar social apps, the link preview fails to show up. And there have been several complaints on YouTube forums and Twitter regarding this. I copied my YouTube video link and pasted on text but no preview shows up! I tried pasting the URL of my YouTube video on Whatsapp and Facebook but no meta description or thumbnail shows up for any of my videos. Source Same here. YouTube link preview is not working in either iPhone WhatsApp and Windows-10 WhatsApp Application, what about others. Source While reports about broken YouTube link previews have been going on for a while, there has been a huge spike recently from WhatsApp users. It appears that WhatsApp has released a bad update that has broken the link previews for YouTube. Links from other sources work fine though. I was also able to reproduce the YouTube link preview not working issue on the latest available stable as well as beta…
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