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diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 4e3de7f51..a3e85264a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -198,14 +198,6 @@ except ImportError:  # Python < 3.4
 
             return compat_urllib_response.addinfourl(io.BytesIO(data), headers, url)
 
-
-# Prepend protocol-less URLs with `http:` scheme in order to mitigate the number of
-# unwanted failures due to missing protocol
-def compat_urllib_request_Request(url, *args, **kwargs):
-    return compat_urllib_request.Request(
-        'http:%s' % url if url.startswith('//') else url, *args, **kwargs)
-
-
 try:
     compat_basestring = basestring  # Python 2
 except NameError: