Annoying URL Addition in Copied Text: A Scientist's Perspective

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When you use Ctrl-C to copy text from a post, the forum software adds a back reference to the copied text: "Reference [URL to post]"

This happens even if you copy a single word, for example to use it as a search term. So after pasting it you have to manually clean up the search box, which is obviously very annoying. I can see some sense in this for a large amount of text that is being copied and re-posted somewhere else. But it should not happen for a few words.
 
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