diff --git a/lib/HTTP.php b/lib/HTTP.php
index a2b7a7f..0d66897 100644
--- a/lib/HTTP.php
+++ b/lib/HTTP.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class HTTP {
   }
 
   private function _class($url) {
-    if(preg_match('/brid\.gy|appspot\.com/', $url)) {
+    if(should_follow_redirects($url)) {
       return 'p3k\HTTPStream';
     } else {
       return 'p3k\HTTPCurl';
diff --git a/lib/HTTPCurl.php b/lib/HTTPCurl.php
index 000ab2c..6c0ed29 100644
--- a/lib/HTTPCurl.php
+++ b/lib/HTTPCurl.php
@@ -54,18 +54,16 @@ class HTTPCurl {
   }
 
   private function _set_curlopts($ch, $url) {
-    $host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
-
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
 
     // Special-case appspot.com URLs to not follow redirects.
     // https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/urlfetch/
-    if(substr($host, -12) == '.appspot.com') {
-      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
-    } else {
+    if(should_follow_redirects($url)) {
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $this->max_redirects);
+    } else {
+      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
     }
 
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, round($this->timeout * 1000));
diff --git a/lib/HTTPStream.php b/lib/HTTPStream.php
index 95bc3e2..cba227b 100644
--- a/lib/HTTPStream.php
+++ b/lib/HTTPStream.php
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ class HTTPStream {
   }
 
   private function _stream_context($method, $url, $body=false, $headers=[]) {
-    $host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
-
     $options = [
       'method' => $method,
       'timeout' => $this->timeout,
@@ -90,11 +88,11 @@ class HTTPStream {
 
     // Special-case appspot.com URLs to not follow redirects.
     // https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/urlfetch/
-    if(substr($host, -12) == '.appspot.com') {
-      $options['follow_location'] = 0;
-    } else {
+    if(should_follow_redirects($url)) {
       $options['follow_location'] = 1;
       $options['max_redirects'] = $this->max_redirects;
+    } else {
+      $options['follow_location'] = 0;
     }
 
     return stream_context_create(['http' => $options]);
diff --git a/lib/helpers.php b/lib/helpers.php
index 2982154..00e55d5 100644
--- a/lib/helpers.php
+++ b/lib/helpers.php
@@ -9,3 +9,12 @@ function view($template, $data=[]) {
 function normalize_url($url) {
   return parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH) == '' ? $url.'/' : $url;
 }
+
+function should_follow_redirects($url) {
+  $host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
+  if(preg_match('/brid\.gy|appspot\.com|blogspot\.com|youtube\.com/', $host)) {
+    return false;
+  } else {
+    return true;
+  }
+}
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