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@@ -126,22 +126,12 @@ You may also pass a sub-application, which _must_ be accompanied by a `base` pat
 Please see [`Middleware`](#middleware) and [Express' middleware examples](http://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#middleware-callback-function-examples) for more info.
 
 
-### parse(req, toDecode=true)
+### parse(req, toDecode=false)
 
 Returns: `Object` or `undefined`
 
 As of `v0.5.0`, this is an alias of the [`@polka/url`](/packages/url) module. For nearly all cases, you'll notice no changes.
 
-One important difference is that URL decoding is enabled by default in polka but it is disabled by default in the `@polka/url` module. You can disable the URL decoding if required,
-
-```js
-const app = polka();
-const { parse } = require('@polka/url');
-app.parse = (req, toDecode) => {
-  return parse(req, false); // or simply, return parse(req);
-}
-```
-
 But, for whatever reason, you can quickly swap in [`parseurl`](https://github.com/pillarjs/parseurl) again:
 
 ```js