diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_content.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_content.js
index e717934fa..549de95fc 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_content.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_content.js
@@ -8,71 +8,9 @@ import classnames from 'classnames';
 import PollContainer from 'mastodon/containers/poll_container';
 import Icon from 'mastodon/components/icon';
 import { autoPlayGif } from 'mastodon/initial_state';
-import { decode as decodeIDNA } from 'mastodon/utils/idna';
 
 const MAX_HEIGHT = 642; // 20px * 32 (+ 2px padding at the top)
 
-// Regex matching what "looks like a link", that is, something that starts with
-// an optional "http://" or "https://" scheme and then what could look like a
-// domain main, that is, at least two sequences of characters not including spaces
-// and separated by "." or an homoglyph. The idea is not to match valid URLs or
-// domain names, but what could be confused for a valid URL or domain name,
-// especially to the untrained eye.
-
-const h_confusables = 'h\u13c2\u1d58d\u1d4f1\u1d691\u0068\uff48\u1d525\u210e\u1d489\u1d629\u0570\u1d4bd\u1d65d\u1d421\u1d5c1\u1d5f5\u04bb\u1d559';
-const t_confusables = 't\u1d42d\u1d5cd\u1d531\u1d565\u1d4c9\u1d669\u1d4fd\u1d69d\u0074\u1d461\u1d601\u1d495\u1d635\u1d599';
-const p_confusables = 'p\u0440\u03c1\u1d52d\u1d631\u1d665\u1d429\uff50\u1d6e0\u1d45d\u1d561\u1d595\u1d71a\u1d699\u1d78e\u2ca3\u1d754\u1d6d2\u1d491\u1d7c8\u1d746\u1d4c5\u1d70c\u1d5c9\u0070\u1d780\u03f1\u1d5fd\u2374\u1d7ba\u1d4f9';
-const s_confusables = 's\u1d530\u118c1\u1d494\u1d634\u1d4c8\u1d668\uabaa\u1d42c\u1d5cc\u1d460\u1d600\ua731\u0073\uff53\u1d564\u0455\u1d598\u1d4fc\u1d69c\u10448\u01bd';
-const column_confusables = ':\u0903\u0a83\u0703\u1803\u05c3\u0704\u0589\u1809\ua789\u16ec\ufe30\u02d0\u2236\u02f8\u003a\uff1a\u205a\ua4fd';
-const slash_confusables = '/\u2041\u2f03\u2044\u2cc6\u27cb\u30ce\u002f\u2571\u31d3\u3033\u1735\u2215\u29f8\u1d23a\u4e3f';
-const dot_confusables = '.\u002e\u0660\u06f0\u0701\u0702\u2024\ua4f8\ua60e\u10a50\u1d16d';
-
-const linkRegex = new RegExp(`^\\s*(([${h_confusables}][${t_confusables}][${t_confusables}][${p_confusables}][${s_confusables}]?[${column_confusables}][${slash_confusables}][${slash_confusables}]))?[^:/\\n ]+([${dot_confusables}][^:/\\n ]+)+`);
-
-const isLinkMisleading = (link) => {
-  let linkTextParts = [];
-
-  // Reconstruct visible text, as we do not have much control over how links
-  // from remote software look, and we can't rely on `innerText` because the
-  // `invisible` class does not set `display` to `none`.
-
-  const walk = (node) => {
-    switch (node.nodeType) {
-    case Node.TEXT_NODE:
-      linkTextParts.push(node.textContent);
-      break;
-    case Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
-      if (node.classList.contains('invisible')) return;
-      const children = node.childNodes;
-      for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
-        walk(children[i]);
-      }
-      break;
-    }
-  };
-
-  walk(link);
-
-  const linkText = linkTextParts.join('');
-  const targetURL = new URL(link.href);
-
-  // The following may not work with international domain names
-  if (linkText === targetURL.origin || linkText === targetURL.host || 'www.' + linkText === targetURL.host || linkText.startsWith(targetURL.origin + '/') || linkText.startsWith(targetURL.host + '/')) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  // The link hasn't been recognized, maybe it features an international domain name
-  const hostname = decodeIDNA(targetURL.hostname);
-  const host = targetURL.host.replace(targetURL.hostname, hostname);
-  const origin = targetURL.origin.replace(targetURL.host, host);
-  if (linkText === origin || linkText === host || linkText.startsWith(origin + '/') || linkText.startsWith(host + '/')) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  // If the link text looks like an URL or auto-generated link, it is misleading
-  return linkRegex.test(linkText);
-};
-
 export default class StatusContent extends React.PureComponent {
 
   static contextTypes = {
@@ -118,34 +56,6 @@ export default class StatusContent extends React.PureComponent {
       } else {
         link.setAttribute('title', link.href);
         link.classList.add('unhandled-link');
-
-        if (isLinkMisleading(link)) {
-          while (link.firstChild) {
-            link.removeChild(link.firstChild);
-          }
-
-          const prefix = (link.href.match(/https?:\/\/(www\.)?/) || [''])[0];
-          const text   = link.href.substr(prefix.length, 30);
-          const suffix = link.href.substr(prefix.length + 30);
-          const cutoff = !!suffix;
-
-          const prefixTag = document.createElement('span');
-          prefixTag.classList.add('invisible');
-          prefixTag.textContent = prefix;
-          link.appendChild(prefixTag);
-
-          const textTag = document.createElement('span');
-          if (cutoff) {
-            textTag.classList.add('ellipsis');
-          }
-          textTag.textContent = text;
-          link.appendChild(textTag);
-
-          const suffixTag = document.createElement('span');
-          suffixTag.classList.add('invisible');
-          suffixTag.textContent = suffix;
-          link.appendChild(suffixTag);
-        }
       }
 
       link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/card.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/card.js
index 012542843..0eff54411 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/card.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/card.js
@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ import React from 'react';
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
 import Immutable from 'immutable';
 import ImmutablePropTypes from 'react-immutable-proptypes';
+import punycode from 'punycode';
 import classnames from 'classnames';
 import Icon from 'mastodon/components/icon';
-import { decode as decodeIDNA } from 'mastodon/utils/idna';
+
+const IDNA_PREFIX = 'xn--';
+
+const decodeIDNA = domain => {
+  return domain
+    .split('.')
+    .map(part => part.indexOf(IDNA_PREFIX) === 0 ? punycode.decode(part.slice(IDNA_PREFIX.length)) : part)
+    .join('.');
+};
 
 const getHostname = url => {
   const parser = document.createElement('a');
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/utils/idna.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/utils/idna.js
deleted file mode 100644
index efab5bacf..000000000
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/utils/idna.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-import punycode from 'punycode';
-
-const IDNA_PREFIX = 'xn--';
-
-export const decode = domain => {
-  return domain
-    .split('.')
-    .map(part => part.indexOf(IDNA_PREFIX) === 0 ? punycode.decode(part.slice(IDNA_PREFIX.length)) : part)
-    .join('.');
-};