rendering HTML: how to disable

[Bernardo]

Hi,

(climbing a steep learning curve as a Gnus newbie ...)

i noticed that some slimy email senders (e.g LinkedIn etc) in their
(HTML formatted) email include URLs which i suspect are used to track
users when opening them;

is there a way to suppress loading/rendering those URLs in Gnus by
default and just show the link address?

looked in the manual under "Article Washing" but soon got lost;
mm-text-html-renderer looked like a lead but i'm not convinced this is
what i want;