Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

[pidgin at alexoren.com]

On 2021-04-14 09:58, Phil Smith III wrote:
> Is there a way to suppress those? These appear for Google Hangouts users,
> though not all such, which is odd. All are aliased; I'd have said they were
> all set up the same, but something appears to be different.

I am getting those all the time (for hangouts) and my ISP is stable, though my buddies tend to hop on and off.
I could not find a way of disabling them.