diff --git a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
index 29880e8d820193e50b0984b6d7c2cf349bc1b7ed..5d4a7c30362778f4544bafa58de1086bf5121f59 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class FetchLinkCardService < BaseService
     else
       html  = Nokogiri::HTML(@status.text)
       links = html.css('a')
-      urls  = links.map { |a| Addressable::URI.parse(a['href']).normalize unless skip_link?(a) }.compact
+      urls  = links.map { |a| Addressable::URI.parse(a['href']) unless skip_link?(a) }.compact.map(&:normalize).compact
     end
 
     urls.reject { |uri| bad_url?(uri) }.first
diff --git a/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb b/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
index 3c8f6f578f474c52f7f6f06904bc4540340acf27..8b296cc704876382736ec632f088136862edf193 100644
--- a/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ RSpec.describe FetchLinkCardService, type: :service do
   end
 
   context 'in a remote status' do
-    let(:status) { Fabricate(:status, account: Fabricate(:account, domain: 'example.com'), text: 'Habt ihr ein paar gute Links zu #<span class="tag"><a href="https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry" target="_blank" rel="tag noopener noreferrer" title="https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry">Wannacry</a></span> herumfliegen?   Ich will mal unter <br> <a href="https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry">https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry</a> was sammeln. !<a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/416/id" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/416/id">security</a>&nbsp;') }
+    let(:status) { Fabricate(:status, account: Fabricate(:account, domain: 'example.com'), text: 'Habt ihr ein paar gute Links zu <a>foo</a> #<span class="tag"><a href="https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry" target="_blank" rel="tag noopener noreferrer" title="https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry">Wannacry</a></span> herumfliegen?   Ich will mal unter <br> <a href="https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry">https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry</a> was sammeln. !<a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/416/id" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/416/id">security</a>&nbsp;') }
 
     it 'parses out URLs' do
       expect(a_request(:get, 'https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry')).to have_been_made.at_least_once