Sorry, that won’t work right now as the exclude control properly only takes the linkType options into account (e.g. lightboxImage, lightboxVideo, etc.). I’ll make sure that all link sub controls like title, rel, etc. are covered in Bricks 1.5. Hope this helps.
Marking this as “solved” as the exclude (array) has been added to the link control in 1.5-rc. I’ve updated the code example as well: Link Control – Bricks Academy