diff --git a/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py b/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
index 08c933a6e..def252a91 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
@@ -299,9 +299,20 @@ def check_libraries(args):
     else:
         modules['PyQt5.QtWebKit'] = _missing_str("PyQt5.QtWebKit")
 
+    from qutebrowser.utils import log
+
     for name, text in modules.items():
         try:
-            importlib.import_module(name)
+            # https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/628
+            # https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/issues/1314/
+            # https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/646
+            # https://bitbucket.org/fdik/pypeg/commits/dd15ca462b532019c0a3be1d39b8ee2f3fa32f4e
+            messages = ['invalid escape sequence',
+                        'Flags not at the start of the expression']
+            with log.ignore_py_warnings(
+                    category=DeprecationWarning,
+                    message=r'({})'.format('|'.join(messages))):
+                importlib.import_module(name)
         except ImportError as e:
             _die(text, e)
 
diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/log.py b/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
index d96eca9a3..07ec78741 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
@@ -200,22 +200,6 @@ def _init_py_warnings():
     """Initialize Python warning handling."""
     warnings.simplefilter('default')
     warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module='pdb', category=ResourceWarning)
-    # https://github.com/pallets/jinja/pull/628
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module=r'jinja2\.filters',
-                            category=DeprecationWarning,
-                            message='Flags not at the start of the expression')
-    # https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/issues/1314/
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module=r'pygments\.util',
-                            category=DeprecationWarning,
-                            message='Flags not at the start of the expression')
-    # https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/646
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module=r'jinja2\..*',
-                            category=DeprecationWarning,
-                            message='invalid escape sequence')
-    # https://bitbucket.org/fdik/pypeg/commits/dd15ca462b532019c0a3be1d39b8ee2f3fa32f4e
-    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module='pypeg2',
-                            category=DeprecationWarning,
-                            message='invalid escape sequence')
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager