diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index 9a9778f0ca..9c7a8b63bb 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -2507,10 +2507,7 @@ output will be ``"Joel is a slug"``.
     Note that ``striptags`` doesn't give any guarantee about its output being
     HTML safe, particularly with non valid HTML input. So **NEVER** apply the
     ``safe`` filter to a ``striptags`` output. If you are looking for something
-    more robust, you can use the ``bleach`` Python library, notably its
-    `clean`_ method.
-
-.. _clean: https://bleach.readthedocs.io/en/latest/clean.html
+    more robust, consider using a third-party HTML sanitizing tool.
 
 .. templatefilter:: time
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 792e7db920..f666fdc05f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ escaping HTML.
     If ``value`` is ``"<b>Joel</b> <button>is</button> a <span>slug</span>"``
     the return value will be ``"Joel is a slug"``.
 
-    If you are looking for a more robust solution, take a look at the
-    :pypi:`bleach` Python package.
+    If you are looking for a more robust solution, consider using a third-party
+    HTML sanitizing tool.
 
 .. function:: html_safe()