I want to confirm that this feature would be an incredible time-saving and quality-of-life improvement for me too. I've seen so many people question why in the world would anyone want to turn the feature off? If you are a developer or anyone who needs to copy/paste code snippets to Evernote, you will immediately see why this default behavior is a major hassle. Try pasting a bunch of curl commands into Evernote and you will have a page full of things you will accidentally click on, which will take you away from Evernote to a browser. It's an awful waste of time going through so many links on my mac, right-clicking on the link, and using cmd + shift + k to remove the link. And you must remove each link individually--seriously? I just finished removing hundreds of links while transferring various notes from Sublime and Eclipse to Evernote, and that's how I stumbled onto this request.
Just because you may find the default behavior useful, there are thousands of people like me and apexdam who don't. I strongly support the idea of making this optional. I just wanted to provide a real use case for why this default behavior is a major annoyance for many of your customers.
Finally, even though I'm griping, I still love Evernote. I'm glad to be a paying customer. Evernote has saved me so much time overall, and I'm able to use it to help folks on my team who aren't much into taking notes. It's helped save our bacon many times.
Thanks,
-Nes