diff --git a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
index 65c4bf18f..a8c7c097d 100644
--- a/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
+++ b/extractor/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/extractors/YoutubeStreamExtractor.java
@@ -176,12 +176,12 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractor extends StreamExtractor {
                 if(link != null) {
                     // if link is null the a tag is a hashtag.
                     // They refer to the youtube search. We do not handle them.
-                    a.attr("abs:href", link);
+                    a.text(link);
 
                 } else if(redirectLink.toString().contains("watch?v=")) {
                     // Another posibility is that this link is pointing to another video
                     // we need to put the redirectLink in here explicitly in order to add the domain part to the link.
-                    a.attr("abs:href", redirectLink.toString());
+                    a.text(redirectLink.toString());
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractorDefaultTest.java b/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractorDefaultTest.java
index da589aa0a..0c4bbf713 100644
--- a/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractorDefaultTest.java
+++ b/extractor/src/test/java/org/schabi/newpipe/extractor/services/youtube/YoutubeStreamExtractorDefaultTest.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class YoutubeStreamExtractorDefaultTest {
     @Test
     public void testGetFullLinksInDescriptlion() throws ParsingException {
         assertTrue(extractor.getDescription().contains("http://smarturl.it/SubscribeAdele?IQid=yt"));
-        assertTrue(extractor.getDescription().contains("http://smarturl.it/SubscribeAdele?IQi..."));
+        assertFalse(extractor.getDescription().contains("http://smarturl.it/SubscribeAdele?IQi..."));
     }
 
     @Test