Android - YouTube link preview not showing up in WhatsApp

The best solution I could find was to adapt the URL copied in the share button

https://youtu.be/bDPczGUovzE

to

https://youtube.com/embed/bDPczGUovzE

This is basically substituting youtu.be with youtube.com/embed leaving the last part (in this video, bDPczGUovzE) untouched.

So now we can see already a preview before even sending

Once sending it we'll see

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Edit

As of today this issue is already fixed and Beta users of WhatsApp can already take advantage of it.

I actually asked this to their support team since this happens for last 3-4 weeks.

Their reply was this

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

We're aware of the issue and are working on fixing it in a future update of WhatsApp.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We'll be happy to help!

My assumption is it's something related to some disagreement between Google and Facebook regarding to watching content from preview.

Created a preview generator for this purpose , here is a link (only works for youtu.be links) : boxcubegames.github.io/ytpgen