diff --git a/package/icu/65.1/0006-add-icu-data-filter-file.patch b/package/icu/65.1/0006-add-icu-data-filter-file.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9256dc127301..000000000000
--- a/package/icu/65.1/0006-add-icu-data-filter-file.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nura a/source/data/filters.json b/source/data/filters.json
---- a/source/data/filters.json	1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
-+++ b/source/data/filters.json	2020-03-01 00:41:28.112818415 +0530
-@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
-+{
-+    "strategy": "additive",
-+    "featureFilters": {
-+        "brkitr_rules": "include",
-+        "brkitr_dictionaries": "include",
-+        "brkitr_tree": "include",
-+        "coll_tree": "include",
-+        "misc": "include",
-+        "curr_tree": "include",
-+        "lang_tree": "include",
-+        "region_tree": "include",
-+        "rbnf_tree": "include",
-+        "zone_tree": "include",
-+        "unit_tree": "include",
-+        "cnvalias": "include",
-+        "locales_tree": "include",
-+        "unames": "include",
-+        "ulayout": "include"
-+    },
-+    "localeFilter": {
-+        "filterType": "locale",
-+        "includeChildren": false,
-+        "whitelist": [
-+            "en_US",
-+            "en_US_POSIX",
-+            "en_001",
-+            "en_150",
-+            "pt"
-+        ]
-+    }
-+}
diff --git a/package/icu/Config.in b/package/icu/Config.in
index e9c53693e924..9e9f0c598711 100644
--- a/package/icu/Config.in
+++ b/package/icu/Config.in
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_USE_ICUDATA
 
 endif
 
+if BR2_PACKAGE_ICU
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_FILTERS_DATA_PATH
+	string "Path to filters data file"
+	help
+	  This option allows to define the path to a filters data
+	  file.
+	  Leave empty to not use this functionality.
+endif
+
 if BR2_PACKAGE_ICU && !BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_USE_ICUDATA
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_CUSTOM_DATA_PATH
diff --git a/package/icu/icu.mk b/package/icu/icu.mk
index 6c60578dfd68..407fe074e2a1 100644
--- a/package/icu/icu.mk
+++ b/package/icu/icu.mk
@@ -4,28 +4,21 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_RDK_VERSIONING),y)
-ICU_VERSION = 57.1
-else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NETFLIX5),y)
 ICU_VERSION = 65.1
-else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NETFLIX52),y)
-ICU_VERSION = 65.1
-else
-ICU_VERSION = 57.1
-endif
 
 ICU_SOURCE = icu4c-$(subst .,_,$(ICU_VERSION))-src.tgz
-ifeq ($(ICU_VERSION), 65.1)
 ICU_SITE = \
 	https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-$(subst .,-,$(ICU_VERSION))
 ICU_LICENSE = ICU License
 ICU_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+ICU_FILTERS_DATA_PATH = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_FILTERS_DATA_PATH))
+# Force to build icudate, as of ICU 64 the website to generate icudate is no longer applicable
+# If someone needs to build it outside still mk file is able to support it
 ICU_BUILD_ICUDATA = y
-export ICU_DATA_FILTER_FILE=$(HOST_ICU_DIR)/source/data/filters.json
-else
-ICU_SITE = http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/$(ICU_VERSION)
-ICU_LICENSE = ICU License
-ICU_LICENSE_FILES = license.html
+
+ifneq ($(ICU_FILTERS_DATA_PATH),)
+export ICU_DATA_FILTER_FILE=$(ICU_FILTERS_DATA_PATH)
 endif
 
 ICU_DEPENDENCIES = host-icu
@@ -63,11 +56,7 @@ HOST_ICU_CONF_ENV = CXX="$(HOSTCXX_NOCCACHE)" CC="$(HOSTCC_NOCCACHE)"
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_USE_ICUDATA),y)
 ICU_DEPENDENCIES += icudata
-ifeq ($(ICU_BUILD_ICUDATA), y)
 ICU_PRE_PATCH_HOOKS += ICUDATA_EXTRACT
-else
-ICU_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += ICUDATA_EXTRACT
-endif
 endif
 
 ICU_CUSTOM_DATA_PATH = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_PACKAGE_ICU_CUSTOM_DATA_PATH))