diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
index ead426951..7b1d3f829 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcompression.py
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 import io
-import warnings
 import zlib
 
 from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.http import Response, TextResponse
 from scrapy.responsetypes import responsetypes
-from scrapy.utils.deprecate import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
 from scrapy.utils.gz import gunzip
 
 ACCEPTED_ENCODINGS = [b"gzip", b"deflate"]
@@ -36,18 +34,7 @@ class HttpCompressionMiddleware:
     def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
         if not crawler.settings.getbool("COMPRESSION_ENABLED"):
             raise NotConfigured
-        try:
-            return cls(stats=crawler.stats)
-        except TypeError:
-            warnings.warn(
-                "HttpCompressionMiddleware subclasses must either modify "
-                "their '__init__' method to support a 'stats' parameter or "
-                "reimplement the 'from_crawler' method.",
-                ScrapyDeprecationWarning,
-            )
-            result = cls()
-            result.stats = crawler.stats
-            return result
+        return cls(stats=crawler.stats)
 
     def process_request(self, request, spider):
         request.headers.setdefault("Accept-Encoding", b", ".join(ACCEPTED_ENCODINGS))
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
index 9dad056de..fcbe50e2b 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpcompression.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ from gzip import GzipFile
 from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
 from unittest import SkipTest, TestCase
-from warnings import catch_warnings
 
 from w3lib.encoding import resolve_encoding
 
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ from scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression import (
     ACCEPTED_ENCODINGS,
     HttpCompressionMiddleware,
 )
-from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured, ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse, Request, Response
 from scrapy.responsetypes import responsetypes
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
@@ -381,20 +380,6 @@ class HttpCompressionSubclassTest(TestCase):
                 super().__init__()
 
         crawler = get_crawler(Spider)
-        with catch_warnings(record=True) as caught_warnings:
+
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
             HttpCompressionMiddlewareSubclass.from_crawler(crawler)
-        messages = tuple(
-            str(warning.message)
-            for warning in caught_warnings
-            if warning.category is ScrapyDeprecationWarning
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            messages,
-            (
-                (
-                    "HttpCompressionMiddleware subclasses must either modify "
-                    "their '__init__' method to support a 'stats' parameter "
-                    "or reimplement the 'from_crawler' method."
-                ),
-            ),
-        )