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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index cb6308d29..da9d04efc 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -2635,11 +2635,14 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
found = re.search(REDIRECT_REGEX, refresh_header)
if found:
new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, unescapeHTML(found.group(1)))
- self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
- return {
- '_type': 'url',
- 'url': new_url,
- }
+ if new_url != url:
+ self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
+ return {
+ '_type': 'url',
+ 'url': new_url,
+ }
+ else:
+ found = None
if not found:
# twitter:player is a https URL to iframe player that may or may not