diff --git a/lychee-bin/src/commands/check.rs b/lychee-bin/src/commands/check.rs
index f7278116d0..68e7ede226 100644
--- a/lychee-bin/src/commands/check.rs
+++ b/lychee-bin/src/commands/check.rs
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ async fn handle(
     // - Skip caching excluded links; they might not be excluded in the next run.
     // - Skip caching links for which the status code has been explicitly excluded from the cache.
     let status = response.status();
-    if ignore_cache(&uri, status, cache_exclude_status) {
+    if ignore_cache(&uri, status, &cache_exclude_status) {
         return response;
     }
 
@@ -283,17 +283,17 @@ async fn handle(
     response
 }
 
-fn ignore_cache(uri: &Uri, status: &Status, cache_exclude_status: HashSet<u16>) -> bool {
+fn ignore_cache(uri: &Uri, status: &Status, cache_exclude_status: &HashSet<u16>) -> bool {
     let status_code = match status.code() {
         None => 0,
         Some(code) => code.as_u16(),
     };
 
-    return uri.is_file()
+    uri.is_file()
         || status.is_excluded()
         || status.is_unsupported()
         || status.is_unknown()
-        || cache_exclude_status.contains(&status_code);
+        || cache_exclude_status.contains(&status_code)
 }
 
 fn show_progress(
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ mod tests {
             ignore_cache(
                 &Uri::try_from("https://[::1]").unwrap(),
                 &Status::Ok(StatusCode::OK),
-                exclude.clone()
+                &exclude
             )
         );
 
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ mod tests {
             ignore_cache(
                 &Uri::try_from("file:///home").unwrap(),
                 &Status::Ok(StatusCode::OK),
-                exclude.clone()
+                &exclude
             )
         );
 
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ mod tests {
             ignore_cache(
                 &Uri::try_from("https://[::1]").unwrap(),
                 &Status::Unsupported(ErrorKind::EmptyUrl),
-                exclude.clone()
+                &exclude
             )
         );
 
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ mod tests {
             ignore_cache(
                 &Uri::try_from("https://[::1]").unwrap(),
                 &Status::UnknownStatusCode(StatusCode::IM_A_TEAPOT),
-                exclude.clone()
+                &exclude
             )
         );
 
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ mod tests {
             ignore_cache(
                 &Uri::try_from("https://[::1]").unwrap(),
                 &Status::Ok(StatusCode::OK),
-                exclude.clone()
+                &exclude
             )
         );
     }