diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 12807fab7c..b51c4cc292 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -403,11 +403,7 @@ class NoUnzipCurlDownloadStrategy < CurlDownloadStrategy
 end
 
 # @deprecated
-class CurlUnsafeDownloadStrategy < CurlDownloadStrategy
-  def _fetch
-    curl @url, '--insecure', '-C', downloaded_size, '-o', temporary_path
-  end
-end
+CurlUnsafeDownloadStrategy = CurlDownloadStrategy
 
 # This strategy extracts our binary packages.
 class CurlBottleDownloadStrategy < CurlDownloadStrategy