diff --git a/contrib/deterministic-build/find_restricted_dependencies.py b/contrib/deterministic-build/find_restricted_dependencies.py
index d0cf01b2e..476e81018 100755
--- a/contrib/deterministic-build/find_restricted_dependencies.py
+++ b/contrib/deterministic-build/find_restricted_dependencies.py
@@ -6,40 +6,58 @@ try:
 except ImportError as e:
     sys.exit(f"Error: {str(e)}. Try 'sudo python3 -m pip install <module-name>'")
 
+def is_dependency_edge_blacklisted(*, parent_pkg: str, dep: str) -> bool:
+    """Sometimes a package declares a hard dependency
+    for some niche functionality that we really do not care about.
+    """
+    dep = dep.lower()
+    parent_pkg = parent_pkg.lower()
+    return (parent_pkg, dep) in {
+        ("qrcode", "colorama"),  # only needed for using qrcode-CLI on Windows.
+        ("click",  "colorama"),  # 'click' is a CLI tool, and it only needs colorama on Windows.
+                                 # In fact, we should blacklist 'click' itself, but that should be done elsewhere.
+    }
 
-def check_restriction(p, r):
+
+def check_restriction(*, dep: str, restricted: str, parent_pkg: str):
     # See: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0496/
     # Hopefully we don't need to parse the whole microlanguage
-    if "extra" in r and "[" not in p:
+    if is_dependency_edge_blacklisted(dep=dep, parent_pkg=parent_pkg):
+        return False
+    if "extra" in restricted and "[" not in dep:
         return False
     for marker in ["os_name", "platform_release", "sys_platform", "platform_system"]:
-        if marker in r:
+        if marker in restricted:
             return True
+    return False
 
 
-for p in sys.stdin.read().split():
-    p = p.strip()
-    if not p:
-        continue
-    assert "==" in p, "This script expects a list of packages with pinned version, e.g. package==1.2.3, not {}".format(p)
-    p, v = p.rsplit("==", 1)
-    try:
-        data = requests.get("https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/{}/json".format(p, v)).json()["info"]
-    except ValueError:
-        raise Exception("Package could not be found: {}=={}".format(p, v))
-    try:
-        for r in data["requires_dist"]:  # type: str
-            if ";" not in r:
-                continue
-            # example value for "r" at this point: "pefile (>=2017.8.1) ; sys_platform == \"win32\""
-            dep, restricted = r.split(";", 1)
-            dep = dep.strip()
-            restricted = restricted.strip()
-            dep_basename = dep.split(" ")[0]
-            if check_restriction(dep, restricted):
-                print(dep_basename, sep=" ")
-                print("Installing {} from {} although it is only needed for {}".format(dep, p, restricted), file=sys.stderr)
-    except TypeError:
-        # Has no dependencies at all
-        continue
+def main():
+    for p in sys.stdin.read().split():
+        p = p.strip()
+        if not p:
+            continue
+        assert "==" in p, "This script expects a list of packages with pinned version, e.g. package==1.2.3, not {}".format(p)
+        p, v = p.rsplit("==", 1)
+        try:
+            data = requests.get("https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/{}/json".format(p, v)).json()["info"]
+        except ValueError:
+            raise Exception("Package could not be found: {}=={}".format(p, v))
+        try:
+            for r in data["requires_dist"]:  # type: str
+                if ";" not in r:
+                    continue
+                # example value for "r" at this point: "pefile (>=2017.8.1) ; sys_platform == \"win32\""
+                dep, restricted = r.split(";", 1)
+                dep = dep.strip()
+                restricted = restricted.strip()
+                dep_basename = dep.split(" ")[0]
+                if check_restriction(dep=dep, restricted=restricted, parent_pkg=p):
+                    print(dep_basename, sep=" ")
+                    print("Installing {} from {} although it is only needed for {}".format(dep, p, restricted), file=sys.stderr)
+        except TypeError:
+            # Has no dependencies at all
+            continue
 
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/contrib/requirements/requirements-hw.txt b/contrib/requirements/requirements-hw.txt
index 1b3fa9b4f..d891b7cf3 100644
--- a/contrib/requirements/requirements-hw.txt
+++ b/contrib/requirements/requirements-hw.txt
@@ -26,8 +26,3 @@ bitbox02>=6.2.0
 # device plugin: jade
 cbor2>=5.4.6,<6.0.0
 pyserial>=3.5.0,<4.0.0
-
-# prefer older colorama to avoid needing hatchling
-# (pulled in via trezor -> click -> colorama)
-# (pulled in via safet -> click -> colorama)
-colorama<0.4.6