I don't recall anyone asking for that before.
You can effectively remove HTML links by using a
keep_html_attrs setting that doesn't have href in it. It's set in defaults.ini under [defaults], so you could override it under [defaults] or specific site section(s) in personal.ini:
Code:
[defaults]
keep_html_attrs:name,class,id,colspan,rowspan,data-orighref
Then new downloads/updates will not have the href attributes on <a> tags that make them links. The <a> tags will still be there, but without href attrs they are basically invisible.