Disable PDF hyperlinks in browser view (Chrome)

Hey everyone, 

Not sure if the following is possible, but I'm hoping someone may have an answer or workaround. 

I am working with a lawfirm who are requesting all URLs on PDFs be disabled. All browswers automatically create clickable links for URLs. So I came up with an idea to overide the URLs to a link that go nowhere. For example if a you do nothing to a URL on a pdf and view it on a Firefox, Firefox will recognize that it is a URL and automatically display it as a hyperlink. So, I create a link over the URL and add a NON clicakable link. It works for all browsers EXCEPT Google Chrome. Google chrome overides what I created and makes the URL clicakable. I have even tried replacing the URL with an images and Chrome still recognize them and adds a URL over the image. I'm shocked how good Chrome is with OCR.  

Rasterizing is not an option, due to the fact that the document MUST be searchable. There are important numbers and info that needs to be easily searched using the find function. 

I'm hoping to find a workaround or a fix to have the URLs stop being recognized by Chrome. We can't ask the end user to change their settings, that is not an option. And in case you are asking why they don't want links clickable in there documents... they have said having a person clicking a link within a document they crated is a liability issue. The client can go to the url on their own. In otherwords, they don't want to be responsible for clients going into a website they provided within the link. 

Anyhow, I hope someone has some insight on this, maybe a workaround. 

Thank you!