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Link preview is for different link than one posted?
@Independent_Thought_Alarm made a link post on /reads that's showing some very odd behavior.
https://www.imzy.com/reads/post/massacre_at_monkey_hill
The article that he tried to link to was
https://priceonomics.com/the-massacre-at-monkey-hill/
But instead, the post links to the author's twitter page.
I tried making a post linking directly to the article myself, but the same thing happens. You put in the article URL, but the preview and actual link are for the twitter page.
Taking a look at the HTML of the article, it seems that the reason for this is that the site is abusing the canonical link. I found the following offending line in its header.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://twitter.com/bencabbr" />
I'm not certain what the solution should be. Maybe don't follow canonical links? I guess that would hurt sites that are actually using it properly.




I think the only thing that can be done here is to let the site author know that they're messing up how they are linked via embed.ly, which is the embedding service we use.
Oh, I see. Guess you can't do much if you're using a third-party service.