diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils.py
index 9ddd6453f..1322c3aaa 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -2926,15 +2926,7 @@ class YoutubeDLCookieProcessor(compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor):
         #                 response.headers[set_cookie_header] = set_cookie_escaped
         return compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.http_response(self, request, response)
 
-    def http_request(self, request):
-        # If the URL contains non-ASCII characters, the cookies
-        # are lost before the request reaches YoutubeDLHandler.
-        # So we percent encode the url before adding cookies
-        # See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/263
-        request = update_Request(request, url=escape_url(request.get_full_url()))
-        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.http_request(self, request)
-
-    https_request = http_request
+    https_request = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor.http_request
     https_response = http_response