Google photo album onebox is confusing

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A link to a google photo album appears as if it’s a single image, with no hint that it’s a link to content. For example:

Google Photos

Edit: link is https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ne7A14xQeMzeMZvh9

That’s not an image, it’s the cover image of an album with several photos.

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I did find this, interestingly it looks like it used to, just doesn’t now..

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Tagging this with pr-welcome, meaning, we’re open to improvements here if somebody is keen on contributing.

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By the miracle of curl, I see the link I posted does a 302 redirect, and the destination includes these header tags, amongst a great deal else:

<meta property="og:title" content="yorkshire (test) · Apr 27 – May 2, 2014 📸">                           
<meta property="og:type" content="website">                                                               
<meta property="og:url" content="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP-hhF_ef_wWDLFBBgdrtFoZlNkLz4RRnX3\
EoLJG6KcJ2bDGnWk1tPmId_E73Im6A?key=aW9pN1pUSXJDcnJicmFRM0otS0otd18wUnVaTllR">                             
<meta property="og:image" content="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOdt22cIOKru3pFYRjCaNDBJm2BX\
kFI_fm_6SzmN8Ur48q2ebtH5rL4YsYfau9cAQkL-fq0LR45SSS_KL15pWsPZBHnYLk3pzpr7YQliOucWn1WfrK7=w600-h315-p-k">   
<meta property="og:image:width" content="600">                                                            
<meta property="og:image:height" content="315">                                                           
<meta property="og:description" content="Shared album · Tap to view!">                                    
<meta name="twitter:card" content="photo">                                                                
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@googlephotos">                                                        
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="Google Photos">
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