diff --git a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
index ac5503d466c..f0b1169db85 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_link_card_service.rb
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ class FetchLinkCardService < BaseService
   def process_url
     @card ||= PreviewCard.new(url: @url)
 
-    failed = Request.new(:head, @url).perform do |res|
-      res.code != 405 && res.code != 501 && (res.code != 200 || res.mime_type != 'text/html')
-    end
-
-    return if failed
-
     Request.new(:get, @url).perform do |res|
       if res.code == 200 && res.mime_type == 'text/html'
         @html = res.body_with_limit
diff --git a/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb b/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
index 50c60aafd1d..9761c5f0649 100644
--- a/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/services/fetch_link_card_service_spec.rb
@@ -4,20 +4,13 @@ RSpec.describe FetchLinkCardService, type: :service do
   subject { FetchLinkCardService.new }
 
   before do
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.xn--fiqs8s/').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.xn--fiqs8s/').to_return(request_fixture('idn.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/sjis').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/sjis').to_return(request_fixture('sjis.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/sjis_with_wrong_charset').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/sjis_with_wrong_charset').to_return(request_fixture('sjis_with_wrong_charset.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/koi8-r').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/koi8-r').to_return(request_fixture('koi8-r.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/日本語').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/日本語').to_return(request_fixture('sjis.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry').to_return(status: 404)
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/test-').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
+    stub_request(:get, 'https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry').to_return(status: 404)
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/test-').to_return(request_fixture('idn.txt'))
-    stub_request(:head, 'http://example.com/windows-1251').to_return(status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html' })
     stub_request(:get, 'http://example.com/windows-1251').to_return(request_fixture('windows-1251.txt'))
 
     subject.call(status)
@@ -90,11 +83,11 @@ RSpec.describe FetchLinkCardService, type: :service 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" 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" 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" title="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/416/id">security</a>&nbsp;') }
 
     it 'parses out URLs' do
-      expect(a_request(:head, 'https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry')).to have_been_made.at_least_once
+      expect(a_request(:get, 'https://github.com/qbi/WannaCry')).to have_been_made.at_least_once
     end
 
     it 'ignores URLs to hashtags' do
-      expect(a_request(:head, 'https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry')).to_not have_been_made
+      expect(a_request(:get, 'https://quitter.se/tag/wannacry')).to_not have_been_made
     end
   end
 end