My guess is that it's hard to develop a system that knows if you want to populate the url field or not, when pasting from the internet. I myself think it's great that Evernote automatically adds the url for easy access and a quick shortcut to the source.
But I think it would be easier to understand your request if you expain the root of your frustration. Why is it a problem? In the user case you are mentioning it is not privacy at least
For myself, I can see that a root cause might be that it's a bit "annoying" to have a non-relevant web adress displayed in the always visible UI, next to the tags in the note panel. But such visual UI annoyances are probably more likely to change if you request for an implementation of a UI option to show/display url. I could get behind that type of request, since I would prefer to have the url "hidden" in the Info section of the note. I have no recurring need for a web adress to show all the time, taking up precious tag-space.
Yes, it is really annoying!
Just like danhash, I have a lot of notes with many web links in it. Having an arbitrary one of the links of a note displayed as "the" source is useless and misleading information.
I never want this behaviour and I don't see a reason why this shouldn't bee an option which can be turned off globally.
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Yes, it is really annoying!
Just like danhash, I have a lot of notes with many web links in it. Having an arbitrary one of the links of a note displayed as "the" source is useless and misleading information.
I never want this behaviour and I don't see a reason why this shouldn't bee an option which can be turned off globally.