Stop Pasted URLs Converting to Page Name

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Zoom Workplace recently updated to version 7.0.5 and while some of the unwanted changes were easy to fix - I don’t use a touchscreen computer, so defaulting to fat-finger mode instead of compact layout is frustrating - there is one thing that I cannot find a setting for and the manual steps to undo it every single time are also not user-friendly. That being when I paste URLs now, rather than simply becoming a link the URL is replaced with the pre-fetched title of the destination web page.

If I wanted to do this, there is already a button to make “custom” links. Undoing it every time I paste a URL - so the recipient can easily see the URL, as well as the page title if they have exercised their user choice to enable link previews - is a completely unnecessary extra few clicks on a hovering toolbar that frequently jumps away as I’m about to click on it. The fact it doesn’t remember that I’ve set it to “link” is incredibly frustrating.

Also, with the ever-increasing risks of phishing, hiding the URL by default is not very security-conscious.

How do I stop Zoom from rewriting my messages without my consent?

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LK_EXN

Community Champion | Partner

Like others mentioned - there doesn’t seem to be any way to disable it for good for now.

But I’ve got a workaround for you 😉
If you hover over a link in your message for a 2 seconds, an additional bar should show up. There you can edit the link and replace “Text” field with your link once more.
It’s not perfect (and can be tedious), but works.

If that helped you, you can mark this as an answer. Thanks.

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Daniel BennettAuthor

Explorer

You can also mouse over “Title” on the left-hand end of that hover bar and then click “link”:

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LK_EXN

Community Champion | Partner

I couldn’t figure out what is it for. Thanks for pointing that out, I’ve also learned something new 😁

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Anton Dobschensky

Newcomer

Just want to add to the request to make this not the default. Or a way to change the default to full URL for Enterprise on both ends of the chat, sending and receiving. This was a scammer's dream implementation.

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OldMacITGuy

Explorer

I appreciate Zoom has added the small improvement of being able to manually change each link from “Title” to “Link”.

However as others have mentioned, the URL itself is frequently the actual relevant content, and having to do this manually for each link is frustrating and time consuming.

This also represents a security risk. Title-only links hide the destination domain, which is the main signal for spotting phishing. Attackers control page titles, so a malicious link can appear as “Okta Sign In” or “Shared via Dropbox,” and the risk is higher when a link comes from a compromised colleague’s account. Showing the full URL keeps the destination visible and easy to check.

I’ve been posting links to chat since IRC/Jabber/Skype days. This isn’t a problem that needed “fixing”.

We need to be able to turn it off entirely, and providing a “hybrid mode”: [Title] | https://example.url might be a good alternative option to just the Title.

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