diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
index d4c18129f..636e7f61d 100644
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack.config.js
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import TerserPlugin from 'terser-webpack-plugin';
 import yaml from 'js-yaml';
 import postcssPresetEnv from 'postcss-preset-env';
 import RemovePlugin from 'remove-files-webpack-plugin';
-import RealFaviconPlugin from 'real-favicon-webpack-plugin';
 import crypto from 'crypto';
 
 // import { version as webpackVersion } from 'webpack/package.json' assert { type: 'json' }; // version.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.');
@@ -31,21 +30,9 @@ const webpackVersion = webpackJson.version.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.');
 import packageJson from './package.json' assert { type: "json" };
 const packageVersion = packageJson.version;
 
-import faviconJson from './config/favicon.json' assert { type: 'json' };
-
 async function webpackConfig() {
   const wellKnownCacheDir = resolve('.cache/well-known');
   const assetsDirectory = resolve('assets');
-  let faviconApiVersion = undefined;
-
-  if (!fs.existsSync(wellKnownCacheDir)) {
-    try {
-      const faviconApiChangelog = await axios.get('https://realfavicongenerator.net/api/versions');
-      faviconApiVersion = faviconApiChangelog.data.filter(vObj => vObj.relevance.automated_update).slice(-1)[0].version;
-    } catch(e) {
-      console.error(e);
-    }
-  }
 
   return {
     module: {
@@ -142,6 +129,7 @@ async function webpackConfig() {
       new webpack.DefinePlugin({
         VERSION: JSON.stringify(packageVersion)
       }),
+      /* TODO: deprecated due to removal of online favicon generation; is this still needed?
       ...(() => {
         const langs = new Set();
         function findLangs(json) {
@@ -201,68 +189,28 @@ async function webpackConfig() {
           console.error(e);
         }
 
-        if (faviconApiVersion) {
-          cacheHash.update(faviconApiVersion);
-        }
         const versionDigest = cacheHash.digest('hex');
 
         return Array.from(langs).map(lang => {
-          const faviconConfig = { versioning: { param_name: 'v', param_value: versionDigest.substr(0,10) }, ...langJsons[lang] };
+          const tmpobj = tmp.fileSync({ postfix: ".json" });
+          fs.writeSync(tmpobj.fd, JSON.stringify(faviconConfig));
+          fs.close(tmpobj.fd);
 
-          const cacheDirectory = resolve('.well-known-cache', `${cacheDigest}-${lang}`);
-
-	  if (fs.existsSync(wellKnownCacheDir)) {
-            console.log("Using favicons generated by nix");
-            return [
-              new CopyPlugin({
-                patterns: [
-                  { from: resolve(wellKnownCacheDir, lang), to: resolve('well-known', lang) }
-                ]
+          return [
+            new CopyPlugin({
+              patterns: [
+                { from: 'config/robots.txt', to: resolve('well-known', lang, 'robots.txt') },
+              ]
+            }),
+            { apply: compiler => compiler.hooks.afterEmit.tap('AfterEmitPlugin', compilation => {
+                const imgFiles = globSync(resolve('well-known', lang) + '/*.@(png)');
+                const imgFilesArgs = Array.from(imgFiles).join(" ");
+                execSync(`exiftool -overwrite_original -all= ${imgFilesArgs}`, { stdio: 'inherit' });
               })
-            ];
-          } else if (fs.existsSync(cacheDirectory) && (!faviconApiVersion || faviconApiVersion === cachedVersion)) {
-            console.log(`Using cached well-known from ${cacheDirectory} for ${lang}`);
-            return [
-              new CopyPlugin({
-                patterns: [
-                  { from: cacheDirectory, to: resolve('well-known', lang) }
-                ]
-              })
-            ];
-          } else {
-            const tmpobj = tmp.fileSync({ postfix: ".json" });
-            fs.writeSync(tmpobj.fd, JSON.stringify(faviconConfig));
-            fs.close(tmpobj.fd);
-
-            return [
-              new RealFaviconPlugin({
-                faviconJson: relative(".", tmpobj.name),
-                outputPath: resolve('well-known', lang),
-                inject: false
-              }),
-              new CopyPlugin({
-                patterns: [
-                  { from: 'config/robots.txt', to: resolve('well-known', lang, 'robots.txt') },
-                ]
-              }),
-              { apply: compiler => compiler.hooks.afterEmit.tap('AfterEmitPlugin', compilation => {
-                  const imgFiles = globSync(resolve('well-known', lang) + '/*.@(png)');
-                  const imgFilesArgs = Array.from(imgFiles).join(" ");
-                  execSync(`exiftool -overwrite_original -all= ${imgFilesArgs}`, { stdio: 'inherit' });
-                })
-              },
-              { apply: compiler => compiler.hooks.afterEmit.tap('AfterEmitPlugin', compilation => {
-                fs.ensureDirSync('.well-known-cache');
-                fs.copySync(resolve('well-known', lang), cacheDirectory);
-                if (!fs.existsSync(versionFile)) {
-                  fs.writeFileSync(versionFile, faviconApiVersion, { encoding: 'utf8' });
-                }
-                })
-              }
-            ];
-          }
+            }
+          ];
         }).flat(1);
-      })()
+      })() */
     ],
 
     output: {
@@ -303,4 +251,4 @@ async function webpackConfig() {
   };
 }
 
-export default webpackConfig;
+export default webpackConfig;
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