diff --git a/src/Model/GContact.php b/src/Model/GContact.php
index 3da5513b5..fb4df9a63 100644
--- a/src/Model/GContact.php
+++ b/src/Model/GContact.php
@@ -627,11 +627,6 @@ class GContact
 			$contact['network'] = Protocol::OSTATUS;
 		}
 
-		// All new contacts are hidden by default
-		if (!isset($contact['hide'])) {
-			$contact['hide'] = true;
-		}
-
 		// Remove unwanted parts from the contact url (e.g. '?zrl=...')
 		if (in_array($contact['network'], Protocol::FEDERATED)) {
 			$contact['url'] = self::cleanContactUrl($contact['url']);
@@ -646,6 +641,7 @@ class GContact
 			$contact['location'] = $contact['location'] ?? '';
 			$contact['about'] = $contact['about'] ?? '';
 			$contact['generation'] = $contact['generation'] ?? 0;
+			$contact['hide'] = $contact['hide'] ?? true;
 
 			$fields = ['name' => $contact['name'], 'nick' => $contact['nick'] ?? '', 'addr' => $contact['addr'] ?? '', 'network' => $contact['network'],
 				'url' => $contact['url'], 'nurl' => Strings::normaliseLink($contact['url']), 'photo' => $contact['photo'],
diff --git a/src/Network/Probe.php b/src/Network/Probe.php
index db4ef517d..7a6711c5f 100644
--- a/src/Network/Probe.php
+++ b/src/Network/Probe.php
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ class Probe
 		$newdata = [];
 		foreach ($fields as $field) {
 			if (isset($data[$field])) {
-				$newdata[$field] = $data[$field];
+				if (in_array($field, ["gsid", "hide", "account-type"])) {
+					$newdata[$field] = (int)$data[$field];
+				} else {	
+					$newdata[$field] = $data[$field];
+				}
 			} elseif ($field != "gsid") {
 				$newdata[$field] = "";
 			} else {
@@ -398,7 +402,7 @@ class Probe
 		// When the previous detection process had got a time out
 		// we could falsely detect a Friendica profile as AP profile.
 		if (!self::$istimeout) {
-			$ap_profile = ActivityPub::probeProfile($uri);
+			$ap_profile = ActivityPub::probeProfile($uri, !$cache);
 
 			if (empty($data) || (!empty($ap_profile) && empty($network) && (($data['network'] ?? '') != Protocol::DFRN))) {
 				$data = $ap_profile;