diff --git a/proxy_scraper_checker/proxy.py b/proxy_scraper_checker/proxy.py
index bd4835e..44690f6 100644
--- a/proxy_scraper_checker/proxy.py
+++ b/proxy_scraper_checker/proxy.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class Proxy:
             self.exit_ip = parse_ipv4(orjson.loads(content)["origin"])
         elif settings.check_website_type == CheckWebsiteType.PLAIN_IP:
             self.exit_ip = parse_ipv4(
-                content.decode(response.get_encoding(), errors="replace")
+                content.decode(response.get_encoding())
             )
         else:
             self.exit_ip = None
diff --git a/proxy_scraper_checker/settings.py b/proxy_scraper_checker/settings.py
index 4e54251..d5ca640 100644
--- a/proxy_scraper_checker/settings.py
+++ b/proxy_scraper_checker/settings.py
@@ -158,8 +158,10 @@ async def _get_check_website_type_and_real_ip(
     except orjson.JSONDecodeError:
         try:
             return CheckWebsiteType.PLAIN_IP, parse_ipv4(
-                content.decode(response.get_encoding(), errors="replace")
+                content.decode(response.get_encoding())
             )
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            _logger.error("Error when decoding check_website response as utf-8")
         except ValueError:
             pass
     else: