Recently Chrome has a new trick for me---it automatically created hyperlinks in text. It does this seemingly everywhere and as such has rendered itself useless.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice and run a full can with not change.

Within my signature here I now have an example:

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill

"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
It turns opportunity and diagnosis into hyperlinks.

I've done a search for the issue but come up dry---any help would be appreciated.