diff --git a/.changeset/great-adults-stare.md b/.changeset/great-adults-stare.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 05d196ac62..0000000000
--- a/.changeset/great-adults-stare.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-'@backstage/plugin-techdocs': minor
----
-
-Ensure that techdocs rewritten URLs do not contain potentially dangerous javascript: URLs.
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.test.ts b/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.test.ts
index 864129164c..66fc5f29c1 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.test.ts
@@ -71,33 +71,6 @@ describe('rewriteDocLinks', () => {
     expect(getSample(shadowDom, 'a', 'href')).toEqual([]);
     expect(shadowDom.innerHTML).toContain(expectedText);
   });
-
-  it('should rewrite javascript hrefs as text', async () => {
-    const samples: Array<[string, string]> = [
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-script-url
-      ['javascript:alert(1)', 'JS 1'],
-      ['  javascript:alert(2)', 'JS 2 (leading space)'],
-      ['\n\tjavascript:alert(3)', 'JS 3 (whitespace)'],
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-script-url
-      ['JaVaScRiPt:alert(4)', 'JS 4 (mixed case)'],
-      ['javascript&#x3A;alert(5)', 'JS 5 (entity-encoded colon)'],
-    ];
-
-    const html = samples
-      .map(([href, text]) => `<a href="${href}">${text}</a>`)
-      .join('\n');
-
-    const shadowDom = await createTestShadowDom(html, {
-      preTransformers: [rewriteDocLinks()],
-      postTransformers: [],
-    });
-
-    // There should be no <a> tags, but the link text should remain.
-    expect(getSample(shadowDom, 'a', 'href')).toEqual([]);
-    for (const [, text] of samples) {
-      expect(shadowDom.innerHTML).toContain(text);
-    }
-  });
 });
 
 describe('normalizeUrl', () => {
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.ts b/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.ts
index a1005fe1d6..e43dda1815 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.ts
+++ b/plugins/techdocs/src/reader/transformers/rewriteDocLinks.ts
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@
 
 import type { Transformer } from './transformer';
 
-// See https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/f0cf832e1d0c8544c36aa8b310960885a11a847c/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/shared/sanitizeURL.js
-const scriptProtocolPattern =
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex
-  /^[\u0000-\u001F ]*j[\r\n\t]*a[\r\n\t]*v[\r\n\t]*a[\r\n\t]*s[\r\n\t]*c[\r\n\t]*r[\r\n\t]*i[\r\n\t]*p[\r\n\t]*t[\r\n\t]*\:/i;
-
 export const rewriteDocLinks = (): Transformer => {
   return dom => {
     const updateDom = <T extends Element>(
@@ -38,12 +33,6 @@ export const rewriteDocLinks = (): Transformer => {
             }
 
             try {
-              if (scriptProtocolPattern.test(elemAttribute)) {
-                throw new TypeError(
-                  `Invalid location ref '${elemAttribute}', target is a javascript: URL`,
-                );
-              }
-
               const normalizedWindowLocation = normalizeUrl(
                 window.location.href,
               );