diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelper.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelper.kt
index e4fea85a1..0ad7e4971 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelper.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelper.kt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ fun setClickableText(view: TextView, content: CharSequence, mentions: List<Menti
 
 @VisibleForTesting
 fun markupHiddenUrls(context: Context, content: CharSequence): SpannableStringBuilder {
-    val spannableContent = SpannableStringBuilder.valueOf(content)
+    val spannableContent = SpannableStringBuilder(content)
     val originalSpans = spannableContent.getSpans(0, content.length, URLSpan::class.java)
     val obscuredLinkSpans = originalSpans.filter {
         val start = spannableContent.getSpanStart(it)
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelperTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelperTest.kt
index 6bff793ab..54b171129 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelperTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/LinkHelperTest.kt
@@ -165,10 +165,12 @@ class LinkHelperTest {
         val maliciousUrl = "https://$maliciousDomain/to/go"
         val content = SpannableStringBuilder()
         content.append(displayedContent, URLSpan(maliciousUrl), 0)
+        val oldContent = content.toString()
         Assert.assertEquals(
             context.getString(R.string.url_domain_notifier, displayedContent, maliciousDomain),
             markupHiddenUrls(context, content).toString()
         )
+        Assert.assertEquals(oldContent, content.toString())
     }
 
     @Test