diff --git a/quiche/common/quiche_feature_flags_list.h b/quiche/common/quiche_feature_flags_list.h
index 116961b..e03f69d 100755
--- a/quiche/common/quiche_feature_flags_list.h
+++ b/quiche/common/quiche_feature_flags_list.h
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_priority_respect_incremental, false, false, "If true, respect the incremental parameter of each stream in QuicWriteBlockedList.")
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_receive_ack_frequency, false, false, "When true, advertises support for ACK_FREQUENCY and IMMEDIATE_ACK from draft-ietf-quic-ack-frequency-10 and processes them correctly.")
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_require_handshake_confirmation, true, true, "If true, require handshake confirmation for QUIC connections, functionally disabling 0-rtt handshakes.")
-QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_send_placeholder_ticket_when_encrypt_ticket_fails, true, true, "If true, when TicketCrypter fails to encrypt a session ticket, quic::TlsServerHandshaker will send a placeholder ticket, instead of an empty one, to the client.")
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_stop_reading_also_stops_header_decompression, true, true, "If true, QUIC stream will not continue decompressing buffer headers after StopReading() called.")
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_test_peer_addr_change_after_normalize, false, false, "If true, QuicConnection::ProcessValidatedPacket will use normalized address to test peer address changes.")
 QUICHE_FLAG(bool, quiche_reloadable_flag_quic_testonly_default_false, false, false, "A testonly reloadable flag that will always default to false.")
diff --git a/quiche/quic/core/tls_server_handshaker.cc b/quiche/quic/core/tls_server_handshaker.cc
index 19c2848..57784be 100644
--- a/quiche/quic/core/tls_server_handshaker.cc
+++ b/quiche/quic/core/tls_server_handshaker.cc
@@ -787,9 +787,7 @@
   QUICHE_DCHECK(proof_source_->GetTicketCrypter());
   std::vector<uint8_t> ticket =
       proof_source_->GetTicketCrypter()->Encrypt(in, ticket_encryption_key_);
-  if (GetQuicReloadableFlag(
-          quic_send_placeholder_ticket_when_encrypt_ticket_fails) &&
-      ticket.empty()) {
+  if (ticket.empty()) {
     QUIC_CODE_COUNT(quic_tls_server_handshaker_send_placeholder_ticket);
     const absl::string_view kTicketFailurePlaceholder = "TICKET FAILURE";
     const absl::string_view kTicketWithSizeLimit =