Skype links in IE

Question

They are ruining the page I'm making. Anyone know a way of turning them off?

It ends up making the text look odd and blurry:

I've tried obfuscating them as so:

+44 (<span>0) 1234</span> 567 890

but Skype still recognises them. I am aware that is a plugin, just wondered if anyone knew of any meta tags or equivalent.

Answer 1

Found the answer - use ­ between numbers.

Answer 2

This looks like fun (jQuery):

$(document).ready(function() {
    window.setTimeout(function() {
        $('.skype_pnh_container').html('');
        $('.skype_pnh_print_container').removeClass('skype_pnh_print_container');
    }, 800);
});

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