# Disabling the automatic "prettification" of links?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-the-automatic-prettification-of-links/284281>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 2, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-the-automatic-prettification-of-links/284281 "2023-11-02T20:32:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-the-automatic-prettification-of-links/284281/1 "2023-11-02T20:32:58Z")

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I installed Discourse the other day on a self-hosted server.

When I copy an URL like [https://www.ietf.org/](https://www.ietf.org/) into a post, Discourse automatically turns into a link with the page’s “title” as text, e.g. like [IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force](https://www.ietf.org/).

This does not happen on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) and I prefer it off.

How can I disable this feature?

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