Problem with Snippet “Remove a link from the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs”

Hello,

the snippet shown here works fine in most cases.

But it doesn’t work for parent pages (therefor are shown in the breadcrumb of the child page) with an “&” in the title. I tried it with & and & amp ; (without spaces) as “$text_to_remove”.

For WooCommerce shop categories it works with an & amp ; (without spaces) as “$text_to_remove”.

How can I successfully exclude pages with “&” in the title from the breadcrumb?
Thank you in advance.

PS: I also get the problem with the original code. But in my case I changed the code to still get the page title, but as simple text without link. Maybe it is of interest to add this to GitHub as well?

add_filter( 'wpseo_breadcrumb_single_link' ,'wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link', 10 ,2);
function wpseo_remove_breadcrumb_link( $link_output , $link ){
    $text_to_remove = 'Products';
    if( $link['text'] == $text_to_remove ) {
		$link_output = '<span class="breadcrumb_text">' . $link['text'] . '</span>';
    } 
    return $link_output;
}