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Hyperlink auto conversion PLEASE STOP

silvershower

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silvershower

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Who on earth came up with the idea that the DEFAULT behaviour, which is NOT able to be turned off, when you paste a hyperlink e.g. to youtube would be to convert this into an embedded video frame, and a giant one at that?! Why would ANYONE vaguely want this?? Every time i moved a block of text around in a note, if it contains links (as many of my notes do) it converts it every single time... worse yet, i have to tell it to reconvert it back into a link, whereupon it loses the display text and only retains the URL. Seriously evernote stop trying to show off your idiotic features if you don't understand your users.... or actually to be honest just humans in general. This is shaping up to a really terrible product.

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On 4/3/2021 at 5:35 PM, skirsch said:

Converting hyperlinks to embedded video frames by default is a horrible idea, I agree. No way to turn it off is extremely annoying.

It's not just annoying, this can be a security issue, since the creation of that embedded content can also result in external code from the embedded page being run upon opening/viewing a note. Making the behavior controllable by an option/preference flag would be the ideal solution. This way, users who like this feature can have it, and those of us who don't like this behavior can disable it.

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10 minutes ago, DevanCS said:

still waiting for the fix?

 

On 5/24/2022 at 7:08 PM, PinkElephant said:

It is not a bug, so why do you expect a „fix“ ?

If you think it is a bug, report it to support.

 

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PinkElephant

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It never was a bug, and who still believes this is a problem hasn’t checked in settings since a long time, and is ignoring release notes.

Very telling about how „severe“ this has been anyhow.

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Mike P

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Yes you are right, there is the option to change the bahaviour of YouTube and Google drive links in both mobile and desktop devices. I was thinking rather more generally when in fact the original post was specifically about YouTube. In the mobile interface you have the option to change the behaviour of urls in general. In the desktop version this option does not exist.

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Mike P

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Just now, gazumped said:

@Mike P Sorry - my mind was on YouTube links, not ordinary URLs!  🫢

No problem  - I went off on a tangent first by even mentioning general urls (which i'm sure is a topic of another thread somewhere) when the original question was about YouTube.

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Boot17

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15 hours ago, DevanCS said:

still waiting for the fix?

So to be clear here for you @DevanCS: No. Not still waiting on the fix for the specific issue in the start of this thread by @silvershower. That concern has long been solved and this thread should be marked as 'Solved'.

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