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by ec109685 982 days ago
The reason it’s implemented this way is that slack doesn’t have the ability to generate a per user thumbnail based on the access rights of the document.

As the sender of the slack link, Slack should give the option to include the preview or not, like it does for other unfurl’s.

Where there would be a major problem is if someone could trick slack to generate a preview of a link they don’t have access to.

Secondarily, I have seen slack show an obsolete preview, which could result in something accidentally shared.