diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/CountingOutputStream.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/CountingOutputStream.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a1c790bd82c7f..00000000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/CountingOutputStream.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2007 The Guava Authors
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package com.facebook.react.modules.network
-
-import java.io.FilterOutputStream
-import java.io.IOException
-import java.io.OutputStream
-
-/**
- * An OutputStream that counts the number of bytes written.
- *
- * @author Chris Nokleberg
- * @since 1.0
- */
-internal open class CountingOutputStream
-/**
- * Constructs a new `FilterOutputStream` with `out` as its target stream.
- *
- * @param out the target stream that this stream writes to.
- */
-(out: OutputStream?) : FilterOutputStream(out) {
-
-  /** Returns the number of bytes written. */
-  var count: Long = 0
-    private set
-
-  @Throws(IOException::class)
-  override fun write(b: ByteArray, off: Int, len: Int) {
-    out.write(b, off, len)
-    count += len.toLong()
-  }
-
-  @Throws(IOException::class)
-  override fun write(b: Int) {
-    out.write(b)
-    count++
-  }
-
-  // Overriding close() because FilterOutputStream's close() method pre-JDK8 has bad behavior:
-  // it silently ignores any exception thrown by flush(). Instead, just close the delegate stream.
-  // It should flush itself if necessary.
-  @Throws(IOException::class)
-  override fun close() {
-    out.close()
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/ProgressRequestBody.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/ProgressRequestBody.kt
index def714d1dfec33..364484e09d706a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/ProgressRequestBody.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/ProgressRequestBody.kt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 package com.facebook.react.modules.network
 
+import java.io.FilterOutputStream
 import java.io.IOException
 import okhttp3.MediaType
 import okhttp3.RequestBody
@@ -48,16 +49,20 @@ internal class ProgressRequestBody(
 
   private fun outputStreamSink(sink: BufferedSink): Sink =
       Okio.sink(
-          object : CountingOutputStream(sink.outputStream()) {
+          object : FilterOutputStream(sink.outputStream()) {
+            private var count = 0L
+
             @Throws(IOException::class)
             override fun write(b: ByteArray, off: Int, len: Int) {
               super.write(b, off, len)
+              count += len.toLong()
               sendProgressUpdate()
             }
 
             @Throws(IOException::class)
             override fun write(b: Int) {
               super.write(b)
+              count++
               sendProgressUpdate()
             }