diff --git a/src/components/util/url.rs b/src/components/util/url.rs
index db052c82a8a..5e1a65036f7 100644
--- a/src/components/util/url.rs
+++ b/src/components/util/url.rs
@@ -40,17 +40,7 @@ pub fn try_parse_url(str_url: &str, base_url: Option<Url>) -> Result<Url, &'stat
                 return Err(err)
             }
         },
-        Ok(url) => {
-            match (url.scheme.as_slice(), url.scheme_data.clone()) {
-                ("data", _) => {
-                    // Drop whitespace within data: URLs, e.g. newlines within a base64
-                    // src="..." block.  Whitespace intended as content should be
-                    // %-encoded or base64'd.
-                    str_url.as_slice().chars().filter(|&c| !c.is_whitespace()).collect()
-                },
-                _ => return Ok(url)
-            }
-        }
+        Ok(url) => return Ok(url)
     };
     parser.parse(str_url.as_slice())
 }