diff --git a/api/funkwhale_api/common/auth.py b/api/funkwhale_api/common/auth.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b404bbca2..000000000
--- a/api/funkwhale_api/common/auth.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-from urllib.parse import parse_qs
-
-from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
-from rest_framework import exceptions
-from rest_framework_jwt.authentication import BaseJSONWebTokenAuthentication
-
-from funkwhale_api.users.models import User
-
-
-class TokenHeaderAuth(BaseJSONWebTokenAuthentication):
-    def get_jwt_value(self, request):
-
-        try:
-            qs = request.get("query_string", b"").decode("utf-8")
-            parsed = parse_qs(qs)
-            token = parsed["token"][0]
-        except KeyError:
-            raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed("No token")
-
-        if not token:
-            raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed("Empty token")
-
-        return token
-
-
-class TokenAuthMiddleware:
-    def __init__(self, inner):
-        # Store the ASGI application we were passed
-        self.inner = inner
-
-    def __call__(self, scope):
-        if "user" in scope:
-            # auth already handled
-            return self.inner(scope)
-        # XXX: 1.0 remove this, replace with websocket/scopedtoken
-        auth = TokenHeaderAuth()
-        try:
-            user, token = auth.authenticate(scope)
-        except (User.DoesNotExist, exceptions.AuthenticationFailed):
-            user = AnonymousUser()
-
-        scope["user"] = user
-        return self.inner(scope)