diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 952a9b4db4..3388123084 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ tqdm==4.60.0
 trafilatura==1.2.0
 twitwi==0.14.0
 ural==0.32.0
-urllib3[secure]==1.26.9
+urllib3==1.26.9
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d50eb2f886..80e6e7bf21 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         "trafilatura>=1.2.0,<1.3",
         "twitwi>=0.14.0,<0.15",
         "ural>=0.32.0,<0.33",
-        "urllib3[secure]>=1.26.9,<2",
+        "urllib3>=1.26.9,<2",
     ],
     entry_points={"console_scripts": ["minet=minet.cli.__main__:main"]},
     zip_safe=True,