diff --git a/src/js/background.js b/src/js/background.js
index 7adc47963..91134e7c2 100644
--- a/src/js/background.js
+++ b/src/js/background.js
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ const µBlock = (( ) => { // jshint ignore:line
         autoUpdateAssetFetchPeriod: 120,
         autoUpdateDelayAfterLaunch: 180,
         autoUpdatePeriod: 7,
+        benchmarkDatasetURL: 'unset',
         blockingProfiles: '11111/#F00 11011/#C0F 11001/#00F 00001',
         cacheStorageAPI: 'unset',
         cacheStorageCompression: true,
diff --git a/src/js/utils.js b/src/js/utils.js
index 339af3a2e..7cd1eedae 100644
--- a/src/js/utils.js
+++ b/src/js/utils.js
@@ -684,15 +684,18 @@
         vAPI.setTimeout(( ) => {
             ttlTimer = undefined;
             datasetPromise = undefined;
-        }, 60000);
+        }, 5 * 60 * 1000);
 
         if ( datasetPromise !== undefined ) {
             return datasetPromise;
         }
 
+        const datasetURL = µBlock.hiddenSettings.benchmarkDatasetURL;
+        if ( datasetURL === 'unset' ) {
+            return Promise.reject('No dataset');
+        }
         console.info(`Loading benchmark dataset...`);
-        const url = vAPI.getURL('/assets/requests.json');
-        datasetPromise = µBlock.assets.fetchText(url).then(details => {
+        datasetPromise = µBlock.assets.fetchText(datasetURL).then(details => {
             console.info(`Parsing benchmark dataset...`);
             const requests = [];
             const lineIter = new µBlock.LineIterator(details.content);
diff --git a/tools/make-assets.sh b/tools/make-assets.sh
index 2d06f3678..ecf0b9729 100755
--- a/tools/make-assets.sh
+++ b/tools/make-assets.sh
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ fi
 rm -rf $DES
 cp -R ./assets $DES/
 
-if [ -f ./tmp/requests.json.gz ]; then
-    gunzip -c ./tmp/requests.json.gz > $DES/requests.json
-fi
-
 mkdir $DES/thirdparties
 cp -R ../uAssets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org $DES/thirdparties/
 cp -R ../uAssets/thirdparties/mirror1.malwaredomains.com         $DES/thirdparties/