diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index c6d56bda..00000000
--- a/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-require 'base64'
-require 'net/http'
-
-class Api::V2::ImageProxyController < EmptyController
-  def get
-    if params[:trends_url].nil?
-      raise GabSocial::NotPermittedError
-    else
-      url = URI.parse(params[:trends_url])
-      image = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
-      send_data image.body, type: image.content_type, disposition: 'inline'
-    end
-  end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js b/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
index 688ed815..5e0cf4c5 100644
--- a/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
+++ b/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const normalizeTrendsItem = (item) => {
     title: `${item.pagePreview.title}`.trim(),
     description: `${item.pagePreview.description}`.trim(),
     publish_date: item.pubDate,
-    image: Array.isArray(item.pagePreview.images) ? `/api/v2/image_proxy?trends_url=${item.pagePreview.images[0]}` : null,
+    image: Array.isArray(item.pagePreview.images) ? null : null, // : todo :
     feed_title: item.feed.title,
     feed_slug: item.feed.slug,
     feed_base_url: `${item.feed.url}`.replace('www.', '').replace('https://', '').replace('http://', '').replace('/', ''),
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 05c1be30..1f2953f3 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
 
     namespace :v2 do
       get '/search', to: 'search#index', as: :search
-      get '/image_proxy', to: 'image_proxy#get'
     end
 
     namespace :web do