Emacs

I would just use a macro.

Assuming that you are referring to plain text...

while keeping them as clickable links

First of all you need to establish why a plain text URL is doing something when you click on it, as your new requirement is going to need to interact with that.

(I'm guessing goto-address-mode is enabled, so I would check that first.)

you can do this with an Overlay, if you know where the link starts and ends. For example I have the buffer README.org

#+title: hypop - emacs minibuffer-frame + hyprland

* Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRt598HqCY

the first character of the link is the 60th and the last is the 103rd. So I could write

(with-current-buffer "README.org"
  (overlay-put (make-overlay 60 103) 'display "link"))

Clicking the "link" text still opens YouTube as expected.

To do this all over a buffer you'd want to add a font-lock rule based on a regular expression like browse-url-button-regexp.

If you only need it in Org files, there's probably some machinery to facilitate that as well

Hyperbole’s ebut:program function lets you create explicitly named buttons that look like <(link)> in place if your long URLs.