How to remove green hyperlink box in preview? Is it possible to disable the obnoxious green hyperlink bounding boxes in Preview (PDF)? 

I do not have access to the latex. The link to the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.01261.pdf. 

When viewed on google there are no boxes, but when I download it for editing the pdf becomes a green swamp. I could not find any setting in Preview to disable this (on High Sierra).
Found a simple solution. If you print the pdf and download the print preview you will get a flattened version of your pdf.