# Link preview when tags are missing is misleading

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-preview-when-tags-are-missing-is-misleading/304416>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** onebox\
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-preview-when-tags-are-missing-is-misleading/304416 "2024-04-18T08:33:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-preview-when-tags-are-missing-is-misleading/304416/10 "2024-04-18T10:39:16Z")

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The other thing that can cause this is if the browser is able to read the url (maybe you’re logged in there) but discourse is denied access. Discourse can also get rate limited. Since the preview is rendered by the browser and the post gets rendered by discourse there isn’t much way to avoid this.

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