Pasting Edge links as plain text

I hate it when software gets too clever for its own good. The otherwise wonderful Edge browser (it is the only one installed on my PC) has developed a really annoying behaviour when pasting web links into other programs. What I want to happen when I paste a link is that the link text is pasted into the target. So I can paste:

https://www.robmiles.com

..into everything.

This used to work fine, but after a recent “upgrade” my pasted text started appearing as hyperlinks. This is a clever thing to do, but it is not what I want. If I copy a link, I want to paste a link.

At first I thought it was something that Word was doing, but it turns out to be Edge that is the culprit. Fortunately it is easy to get rid of this “Improvement”. Click the three dots at the top right hand corner of your browser window. select Settings from the menu that appears and then select Share Copy and Paste from the settings menu. Then change the share copy and paste option to Plain text as you see above. Then your urls will be pasted correctly.