diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 53c624679..8705a5249 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ or even enable client-side authentication (and various other things).
 
 If you do use a custom ContextFactory, make sure its ``__init__`` method
 accepts a ``method`` parameter (this is the ``OpenSSL.SSL`` method mapping
-:setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_METHOD`) and a ``settings`` parameter (this is
-the Scrapy :class:`~scrapy.settings.Settings` object).
+:setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_METHOD`) and a ``tls_verbose_logging``
+parameter (``bool``).
 
 .. setting:: DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_METHOD
 
diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
index 80c784f5a..d5d238b9c 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
@@ -29,17 +29,18 @@ if twisted_version >= (14, 0, 0):
          understand the SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 protocols.'
         """
 
-        def __init__(self, method=SSL.SSLv23_METHOD, settings=None, *args, **kwargs):
+        def __init__(self, method=SSL.SSLv23_METHOD, tls_verbose_logging=False, *args, **kwargs):
             super(ScrapyClientContextFactory, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
             self._ssl_method = method
-            if settings:
-                self.tls_verbose_logging = settings['DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_VERBOSE_LOGGING']
-            else:
-                self.tls_verbose_logging = False
+            self.tls_verbose_logging = tls_verbose_logging
 
         @classmethod
         def from_settings(cls, settings, method=SSL.SSLv23_METHOD, *args, **kwargs):
-            return cls(method=method, settings=settings, *args, **kwargs)
+            if settings:
+                tls_verbose_logging = settings.getbool('DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_VERBOSE_LOGGING')
+            else:
+                tls_verbose_logging = False
+            return cls(method=method, tls_verbose_logging=tls_verbose_logging, *args, **kwargs)
 
         def getCertificateOptions(self):
             # setting verify=True will require you to provide CAs
diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http11.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http11.py
index 9b0c7977d..deb0f9d21 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http11.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http11.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class HTTP11DownloadHandler(object):
             self._contextFactory = create_instance(self._contextFactoryClass, settings=settings, crawler=None)
             msg = """
  '%s' does not accept `method` argument (type OpenSSL.SSL method,\
- e.g. OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv23_METHOD) and/or `settings` argument.\
+ e.g. OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv23_METHOD) and/or `tls_verbose_logging` argument.\
  Please upgrade your context factory class to handle them or ignore them.""" % (
                 settings['DOWNLOADER_CLIENTCONTEXTFACTORY'],)
             warnings.warn(msg)