Verizon Messages is a group of software clients available for mobile, desktop, and web aimed at enhancing/unifying the VZW text messaging experience across multiple devices. Verizon Messages has a few additional features outside of SMS when at a desktop/laptop. After a while, messages containing links were being displayed with a preview/summary embedded in both the web and mobile interfaces. Heres how a few examples were rendered: “WebPreview”: { “valid”: true, “url”: “http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/13/technology/ransomware”, “title”: “Ransomware: World reels from massive cyberattack””]
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