Preventing autolinking of emails and URLs in an Android WebView

Question

I have a WebView which may contain data that appears to be getting \"auto linked\". Something that looks like an email address is becoming clickable, even though i

Answer 1

That appears to be unchangeable functionality of the WebView.

You could do the opposite of this Is there any way to have WebView auto-link URLs and phone numbers in Android? and create a javascript link stripper (instead of the proposed link injector there).

Not sure what else would work for this.