diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index cd599eefc..4c34efa15 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ require 'rails/all'
 Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)
 
 require_relative '../app/lib/exceptions'
+require_relative '../lib/paperclip/url_generator_extensions'
 require_relative '../lib/paperclip/attachment_extensions'
 require_relative '../lib/paperclip/lazy_thumbnail'
 require_relative '../lib/paperclip/gif_transcoder'
diff --git a/lib/paperclip/url_generator_extensions.rb b/lib/paperclip/url_generator_extensions.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1079efdbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/paperclip/url_generator_extensions.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+module Paperclip
+  module UrlGeneratorExtensions
+    # Monkey-patch Paperclip to use Addressable::URI's normalization instead
+    # of the long-deprecated URI.esacpe
+    def escape_url(url)
+      if url.respond_to?(:escape)
+        url.escape
+      else
+        Addressable::URI.parse(url).normalize.to_str.gsub(escape_regex) { |m| "%#{m.ord.to_s(16).upcase}" }
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+Paperclip::UrlGenerator.prepend(Paperclip::UrlGeneratorExtensions)