Over the past few days I've noticed Mastodon is mangling YouTube link previews.
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Over the past few days I've noticed Mastodon is mangling YouTube link previews. The description text in the preview card is in German. And the links seem to be rewritten, sometimes breaking the link (only when clicking on the preview card, not the URL in the post itself). I've seen preview links get set to:
https:// www.youtube.com/undefined
https:// consent.youtube.com
I see this behavior in the web UI and in Ivory.
Anyone else see this or know what might be causing it?
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@null Now that you mentioned it I saw it in someone else's post too, a German version of the preview :blobfoxthinkanime:
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@null Check out this issue on GitHub
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@ricard Thanks. Looks like it's been reported a few times now. 31308 seems to be the earliest. I guess it's not happening for all servers, and I'm one of the unlucky ones.
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I saw this issue pop up a few weeks ago and I ran a test with both short and long links. Some were saying only certain links were previewing.
Both previewed ok for me, and others, and still do, while some, many, viewing my posts didn't get a link preview via their instance.
I surmised it was either an instance being behind on SideKiq jobs or having failing jobs or YouTube blocking and leaned towards YouTube as the root cause.