diff --git a/.github/workflows/links.yml b/.github/workflows/links.yml
index 7109800c9f..e770a2d547 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/links.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/links.yml
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             lychee \
             --scheme https \
+            --timeout 60 \
+            --insecure \
             --accept 403,429,500,502,999 \
-            --exclude-loopback \
+            --exclude-all-private \
             --exclude 'https?://(www\.)?(linkedin\.com|twitter\.com|instagram\.com|kaggle\.com|fonts\.gstatic\.com|url\.com)' \
             --exclude-path docs/zh \
             --exclude-path docs/es \
@@ -63,8 +65,10 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             lychee \
             --scheme https \
+            --timeout 60 \
+            --insecure \
             --accept 429,999 \
-            --exclude-loopback \
+            --exclude-all-private \
             --exclude 'https?://(www\.)?(linkedin\.com|twitter\.com|instagram\.com|kaggle\.com|fonts\.gstatic\.com|url\.com)' \
             --exclude-path '**/ci.yaml' \
             --exclude-path docs/zh \
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1afacc11f4..93e9078a84 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ dev = [
     "mkdocstrings[python]",
     "mkdocs-jupyter", # for notebooks
     "mkdocs-redirects", # for 301 redirects
-    "mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin>=0.0.40", # for meta descriptions and images, dates and authors
+    "mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin>=0.0.42", # for meta descriptions and images, dates and authors
 ]
 export = [
     "onnx>=1.12.0", # ONNX export