How to exclude a direct dependency of a Maven Plugin

Question

I want to exclude a direct dependency of a Maven plugin and the approach described in this answer does not work (as indicated by this comment).

As a particular examp

Answer 1

I had a similar situation with maven-linkcheck-plugin in the end I did a more brute force approach to remove the doxia-linkcheck dependency and make it use my fork by forking maven-linkcheck-plugin and creating my own with the proper dependencies.