diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index b413c957..fc531632 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -5065,17 +5065,6 @@ Description
     used for (urllib3) warnings.
 
 
-pyopenssl
----------
-Type
-    ``bool``
-Default
-    ``false``
-Description
-    Use `pyOpenSSL <https://www.pyopenssl.org/en/stable/>`__-backed
-    SSL-support.
-
-
 
 API Tokens & IDs
 ================
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
index 5c9b1577..3cb5fc41 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -897,13 +897,3 @@ if action:
     except Exception:
         pass
 del action
-
-# Undo automatic pyOpenSSL injection by requests
-pyopenssl = config.get((), "pyopenssl", False)
-if not pyopenssl:
-    try:
-        from requests.packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl  # noqa
-        pyopenssl.extract_from_urllib3()
-    except ImportError:
-        pass
-del pyopenssl