I would be curious to get input from other business-type users as to whether stripping this entirely violated their security intent. One of the benefits of this feature is a URL can later be deemed “unsafe” and further attempts to click it will be blocked.
On the other hand, forum owners might be grumpy that Microsoft is “tracking all of their forum users activity”.
I can see two sides to an argument here.
A decent approach to take might be:
- if a safelinked URL is pasted (on its own or inline)
- resolve the onebox normally
- if no onebox or title, make the “pretty text” the unwrapped link
- the link target should still be the safelinked URL
i.e. it would look like: