Web links (URLs) are being parsed in the conversation feed - disable this?

Question

I noticed that some of recent updates in skype for mac started to be too clever with links I post in conversations - it tries to fetch the content, parse it and present some small excerpt if it in the conversation.  But I mostly message links to closed sites - like Google Docs or internal knowledge base - and they require logging in. So, I know mostly see in my conversations with collegues something like this. How can I disable this behavior? I want to see plain links, I do not need this supersmart parsing.  

Answer 1

Well, I want to see IMAGES in the chat (i.e. someone transmits actual image data), but I don't want to see WEB PREVIEWS (previews of web pages, or the picture an image URL points to) in the chat. Data is data, and a link is a link. Data should be displayed, and links should remain links. If someone wants me to see a web page, they should make a screen grab to their local computer, and then send me the picture as an image. Otherwise they should send me a link, which then I can peruse at my own convenience (which usually includes first scrubbing the link of any identifying trailing garbage.)
As a matter of fact, I don't want Microsoft/Skype to PARSE ANYTHING that I transmit.
Just as automatic loading of remote images in HTML e-mail messages constitutes a major security risk and privacy breach, so does this web preview function.
I have absolutely no intention to disclose who I'm conversing with and what we talk about, but if someone sends me a link that hasn't been properly "cleaned up", then the site will know who sent me the link, who received it, what the conversation might have been about etc. and that information is sent without my consent.
I have ZERO tolerance for Microsoft's lack of sensitivity to privacy, and where we users are being stripped naked to prying eyes, all in the guise of some "neat features".
I don't need no "neat features". If you want web links to work the way they are supposed to work on the Mac, then allow for a right-click with a QuickLook option, but display the link in it's full length with all the "garbage" that will be transmitted to the site when the link is clicked upon, no "user friendly URL" version, that makes a link look like it were a harmless, state-free static link, while in fact it's a 900 character long monster with encoded state and personal details. One might think that's part of the PRISM program...