Index: certifi/core.py
--- certifi/core.py.orig
+++ certifi/core.py
@@ -9,36 +9,7 @@ This module returns the installation location of cacer
 import os
 
 try:
-    from importlib.resources import path as get_path, read_text
-
-    _CACERT_CTX = None
-    _CACERT_PATH = None
-
-    def where():
-        # This is slightly terrible, but we want to delay extracting the file
-        # in cases where we're inside of a zipimport situation until someone
-        # actually calls where(), but we don't want to re-extract the file
-        # on every call of where(), so we'll do it once then store it in a
-        # global variable.
-        global _CACERT_CTX
-        global _CACERT_PATH
-        if _CACERT_PATH is None:
-            # This is slightly janky, the importlib.resources API wants you to
-            # manage the cleanup of this file, so it doesn't actually return a
-            # path, it returns a context manager that will give you the path
-            # when you enter it and will do any cleanup when you leave it. In
-            # the common case of not needing a temporary file, it will just
-            # return the file system location and the __exit__() is a no-op.
-            #
-            # We also have to hold onto the actual context manager, because
-            # it will do the cleanup whenever it gets garbage collected, so
-            # we will also store that at the global level as well.
-            _CACERT_CTX = get_path("certifi", "cacert.pem")
-            _CACERT_PATH = str(_CACERT_CTX.__enter__())
-
-        return _CACERT_PATH
-
-
+    from importlib.resources import read_text
 except ImportError:
     # This fallback will work for Python versions prior to 3.7 that lack the
     # importlib.resources module but relies on the existing `where` function
@@ -48,12 +19,9 @@ except ImportError:
         with open(where(), "r", encoding=encoding) as data:
             return data.read()
 
-    # If we don't have importlib.resources, then we will just do the old logic
-    # of assuming we're on the filesystem and munge the path directly.
-    def where():
-        f = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 
-        return os.path.join(f, "cacert.pem")
+def where():
+    return '/etc/ssl/cert.pem'
 
 
 def contents():
