diff --git a/src/library.js b/src/library.js
index de40788604bf9..132de3c2910b0 100644
--- a/src/library.js
+++ b/src/library.js
@@ -2181,18 +2181,14 @@ addToLibrary({
     return x.startsWith('dynCall_') ? x : '_' + x;
   },
 
-  $asyncLoad__docs: '/** @param {boolean=} noRunDep */',
-  $asyncLoad: (url, noRunDep) => {
+  $asyncLoad: (url) => {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      var dep = !noRunDep ? getUniqueRunDependency(`al ${url}`) : '';
-      if (dep) addRunDependency(dep);
       readAsync(url).then(
         (arrayBuffer) => {
   #if ASSERTIONS
           assert(arrayBuffer, `Loading data file "${url}" failed (no arrayBuffer).`);
   #endif
           resolve(new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer));
-          if (dep) removeRunDependency(dep);
         }, reject);
     });
   },
diff --git a/src/library_async.js b/src/library_async.js
index a3fbc151cb76f..9327bc3b495ff 100644
--- a/src/library_async.js
+++ b/src/library_async.js
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ addToLibrary({
   emscripten_wget_data: (url, pbuffer, pnum, perror) => {
     return Asyncify.handleSleep((wakeUp) => {
       /* no need for run dependency, this is async but will not do any prepare etc. step */
-      asyncLoad(UTF8ToString(url), /*noRunDep=*/true).then((byteArray) => {
+      asyncLoad(UTF8ToString(url)).then((byteArray) => {
         // can only allocate the buffer after the wakeUp, not during an asyncing
         var buffer = _malloc(byteArray.length); // must be freed by caller!
         HEAPU8.set(byteArray, buffer);
diff --git a/src/library_wget.js b/src/library_wget.js
index fe6416a7391f0..279913d0e19b4 100644
--- a/src/library_wget.js
+++ b/src/library_wget.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ var LibraryWget = {
   emscripten_async_wget_data: (url, userdata, onload, onerror) => {
     {{{ runtimeKeepalivePush() }}}
     /* no need for run dependency, this is async but will not do any prepare etc. step */
-    asyncLoad(UTF8ToString(url), /*noRunDep=*/true).then((byteArray) => {
+    asyncLoad(UTF8ToString(url)).then((byteArray) => {
       {{{ runtimeKeepalivePop() }}}
       callUserCallback(() => {
         var buffer = _malloc(byteArray.length);
diff --git a/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.gzsize b/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.gzsize
index dcea0b8b886f4..473dc4cba135f 100644
--- a/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.gzsize
+++ b/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.gzsize
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6294
+6276
diff --git a/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.jssize b/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.jssize
index 180ee9baf7ffc..153b68e34d9a0 100644
--- a/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.jssize
+++ b/test/other/codesize/test_codesize_hello_dylink.jssize
@@ -1 +1 @@
-13863
+13831