diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 981ca62c0..9bca595e1 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
     IE_DESC = u'YouTube.com user videos (URL or "ytuser" keyword)'
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:(?:(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/(?:user/)?(?!(?:attribution_link|watch|results)(?:$|[^a-z_A-Z0-9-])))|ytuser:)(?!feed/)([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:(?:(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/user/)|ytuser:)([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)'
     _TEMPLATE_URL = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/%s'
     _GDATA_PAGE_SIZE = 50
     _GDATA_URL = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/%s/uploads?max-results=%d&start-index=%d&alt=json'