diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@
 dist/
 version.txt
 .mypy_cache/
-.hypothesis
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-confluent-kafka
-hypothesis
 pytest
 pytest-mock
+confluent-kafka
 pytest-redis
 pyyaml
 requests_mock
diff --git a/swh/counters/journal_client.py b/swh/counters/journal_client.py
--- a/swh/counters/journal_client.py
+++ b/swh/counters/journal_client.py
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
-from collections import defaultdict
 from typing import Dict
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 import msgpack
 
@@ -22,9 +20,6 @@
     for key in messages.keys():
         counters.add(key, messages[key])
 
-    if "origin" in messages:
-        process_origins(messages["origin"], counters)
-
     if "revision" in messages:
         process_revisions(messages["revision"], counters)
 
@@ -32,23 +27,6 @@
         process_releases(messages["release"], counters)
 
 
-def process_origins(origins: Dict[bytes, bytes], counters: CountersInterface):
-    """Count the number of different network locations in origin URLs."""
-    origins_netloc = defaultdict(set)
-    for origin_bytes in origins.values():
-        origin = msgpack.loads(origin_bytes)
-        parsed_url = urlparse(origin["url"])
-        netloc = parsed_url.netloc
-        if netloc.endswith("googlecode.com"):
-            # special case for googlecode origins where URL netloc
-            # has the form {account}.googlecode.com
-            netloc = "googlecode.com"
-        origins_netloc[f"origin_netloc:{netloc}"].add(origin["url"])
-
-    for k, v in origins_netloc.items():
-        counters.add(k, v)
-
-
 def process_revisions(revisions: Dict[bytes, bytes], counters: CountersInterface):
     """Count the number of different authors and committers on the
        revisions (in the person collection)"""
diff --git a/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py b/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
--- a/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
+++ b/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
@@ -3,26 +3,19 @@
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
-from collections import Counter
 from typing import Dict, Optional
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
-from hypothesis import given
-from hypothesis.strategies import lists
 import msgpack
 
 from swh.counters.journal_client import (
     process_journal_messages,
-    process_origins,
     process_releases,
     process_revisions,
 )
 from swh.counters.redis import Redis
 from swh.model.hashutil import hash_to_bytes
-from swh.model.hypothesis_strategies import origins
 from swh.model.model import (
     ObjectType,
-    Origin,
     Person,
     Release,
     Revision,
@@ -152,50 +145,3 @@
     process_releases(releases, redis)
 
     assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {}
-
-
-def test_journal_client_process_origins(local_redis_host, redisdb):
-    # hypothesis does not play well with pytest function scoped fixtures
-    # so we use an inner test function as workaround
-    @given(lists(origins()))
-    def inner(origins):
-        origins_ = {
-            msgpack.dumps(origin.to_dict()): msgpack.dumps(origin.to_dict())
-            for origin in origins
-        }
-
-        # explicitly flush redis db content due to hypothesis use
-        redisdb.flushall()
-        redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
-
-        process_origins(origins_, redis)
-
-        expected_counts = Counter(
-            [
-                f"origin_netloc:{urlparse(origin.url).netloc}".encode()
-                for origin in set(origins)
-            ]
-        )
-
-        assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == expected_counts
-
-    inner()
-
-
-def test_journal_client_process_googlecode_origins(local_redis_host):
-    origins = [
-        Origin(url="https://foo.googlecode.com"),
-        Origin(url="https://bar.googlecode.com"),
-    ]
-    origins_ = {
-        msgpack.dumps(origin.to_dict()): msgpack.dumps(origin.to_dict())
-        for origin in origins
-    }
-
-    redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
-
-    process_origins(origins_, redis)
-
-    assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {
-        b"origin_netloc:googlecode.com": 2
-    }