diff --git a/src/invidious/helpers/helpers.cr b/src/invidious/helpers/helpers.cr
index 6dc9860eb..6add0237f 100644
--- a/src/invidious/helpers/helpers.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/helpers/helpers.cr
@@ -78,15 +78,6 @@ def create_notification_stream(env, topics, connection_channel)
           video.published = published
           response = JSON.parse(video.to_json(locale, nil))
 
-          if fields_text = env.params.query["fields"]?
-            begin
-              JSONFilter.filter(response, fields_text)
-            rescue ex
-              env.response.status_code = 400
-              response = {"error" => ex.message}
-            end
-          end
-
           env.response.puts "id: #{id}"
           env.response.puts "data: #{response.to_json}"
           env.response.puts
@@ -113,15 +104,6 @@ def create_notification_stream(env, topics, connection_channel)
             Invidious::Database::ChannelVideos.select_notfications(topic, since_unix).each do |video|
               response = JSON.parse(video.to_json(locale))
 
-              if fields_text = env.params.query["fields"]?
-                begin
-                  JSONFilter.filter(response, fields_text)
-                rescue ex
-                  env.response.status_code = 400
-                  response = {"error" => ex.message}
-                end
-              end
-
               env.response.puts "id: #{id}"
               env.response.puts "data: #{response.to_json}"
               env.response.puts
@@ -155,15 +137,6 @@ def create_notification_stream(env, topics, connection_channel)
         video.published = Time.unix(published)
         response = JSON.parse(video.to_json(locale, nil))
 
-        if fields_text = env.params.query["fields"]?
-          begin
-            JSONFilter.filter(response, fields_text)
-          rescue ex
-            env.response.status_code = 400
-            response = {"error" => ex.message}
-          end
-        end
-
         env.response.puts "id: #{id}"
         env.response.puts "data: #{response.to_json}"
         env.response.puts
diff --git a/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr b/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f4080bae..000000000
--- a/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,248 +0,0 @@
-module JSONFilter
-  alias BracketIndex = Hash(Int64, Int64)
-
-  alias GroupedFieldsValue = String | Array(GroupedFieldsValue)
-  alias GroupedFieldsList = Array(GroupedFieldsValue)
-
-  class FieldsParser
-    class ParseError < Exception
-    end
-
-    # Returns the `Regex` pattern used to match nest groups
-    def self.nest_group_pattern : Regex
-      # uses a '.' character to match json keys as they are allowed
-      # to contain any unicode codepoint
-      /(?:|,)(?<groupname>[^,\n]*?)\(/
-    end
-
-    # Returns the `Regex` pattern used to check if there are any empty nest groups
-    def self.unnamed_nest_group_pattern : Regex
-      /^\(|\(\(|\/\(/
-    end
-
-    def self.parse_fields(fields_text : String, &) : Nil
-      if fields_text.empty?
-        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Fields is empty"
-      end
-
-      opening_bracket_count = fields_text.count('(')
-      closing_bracket_count = fields_text.count(')')
-
-      if opening_bracket_count != closing_bracket_count
-        bracket_type = opening_bracket_count > closing_bracket_count ? "opening" : "closing"
-        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "There are too many #{bracket_type} brackets (#{opening_bracket_count}:#{closing_bracket_count})"
-      elsif match_result = unnamed_nest_group_pattern.match(fields_text)
-        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Unnamed nest group at position #{match_result.begin}"
-      end
-
-      # first, handle top-level single nested properties: items/id, playlistItems/snippet, etc
-      parse_single_nests(fields_text) { |nest_list| yield nest_list }
-
-      # next, handle nest groups: items(id, etag, etc)
-      parse_nest_groups(fields_text) { |nest_list| yield nest_list }
-    end
-
-    def self.parse_single_nests(fields_text : String, &) : Nil
-      single_nests = remove_nest_groups(fields_text)
-
-      if !single_nests.empty?
-        property_nests = single_nests.split(',')
-
-        property_nests.each do |nest|
-          nest_list = nest.split('/')
-          if nest_list.includes? ""
-            raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list: #{nest_list}"
-          end
-          yield nest_list
-        end
-        # else
-        #   raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list 22: #{fields_text} | #{single_nests}"
-      end
-    end
-
-    def self.parse_nest_groups(fields_text : String, &) : Nil
-      nest_stack = [] of NamedTuple(group_name: String, closing_bracket_index: Int64)
-      bracket_pairs = get_bracket_pairs(fields_text, true)
-
-      text_index = 0
-      regex_index = 0
-
-      while regex_result = self.nest_group_pattern.match(fields_text, regex_index)
-        raw_match = regex_result[0]
-        group_name = regex_result["groupname"]
-
-        text_index = regex_result.begin
-        regex_index = regex_result.end
-
-        if text_index.nil? || regex_index.nil?
-          raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Received invalid index while parsing nest groups: text_index: #{text_index} | regex_index: #{regex_index}"
-        end
-
-        offset = raw_match.starts_with?(',') ? 1 : 0
-
-        opening_bracket_index = (text_index + group_name.size) + offset
-        closing_bracket_index = bracket_pairs[opening_bracket_index]
-        content_start = opening_bracket_index + 1
-
-        content = fields_text[content_start...closing_bracket_index]
-
-        if content.empty?
-          raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty nest group at position #{content_start}"
-        else
-          content = remove_nest_groups(content)
-        end
-
-        while nest_stack.size > 0 && closing_bracket_index > nest_stack[nest_stack.size - 1][:closing_bracket_index]
-          if nest_stack.size
-            nest_stack.pop
-          end
-        end
-
-        group_name.split('/').each do |name|
-          nest_stack.push({
-            group_name:            name,
-            closing_bracket_index: closing_bracket_index,
-          })
-        end
-
-        if !content.empty?
-          properties = content.split(',')
-
-          properties.each do |prop|
-            nest_list = nest_stack.map { |nest_prop| nest_prop[:group_name] }
-
-            if !prop.empty?
-              if prop.includes?('/')
-                parse_single_nests(prop) { |list| nest_list += list }
-              else
-                nest_list.push prop
-              end
-            else
-              raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list: #{nest_list << prop}"
-            end
-
-            yield nest_list
-          end
-        end
-      end
-    end
-
-    def self.remove_nest_groups(text : String) : String
-      content_bracket_pairs = get_bracket_pairs(text, false)
-
-      content_bracket_pairs.each_key.to_a.reverse.each do |opening_bracket|
-        closing_bracket = content_bracket_pairs[opening_bracket]
-        last_comma = text.rindex(',', opening_bracket) || 0
-
-        text = text[0...last_comma] + text[closing_bracket + 1...text.size]
-      end
-
-      return text.starts_with?(',') ? text[1...text.size] : text
-    end
-
-    def self.get_bracket_pairs(text : String, recursive = true) : BracketIndex
-      istart = [] of Int64
-      bracket_index = BracketIndex.new
-
-      text.each_char_with_index do |char, index|
-        if char == '('
-          istart.push(index.to_i64)
-        end
-
-        if char == ')'
-          begin
-            opening = istart.pop
-            if recursive || (!recursive && istart.size == 0)
-              bracket_index[opening] = index.to_i64
-            end
-          rescue
-            raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "No matching opening parenthesis at: #{index}"
-          end
-        end
-      end
-
-      if istart.size != 0
-        idx = istart.pop
-        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "No matching closing parenthesis at: #{idx}"
-      end
-
-      return bracket_index
-    end
-  end
-
-  class FieldsGrouper
-    alias SkeletonValue = Hash(String, SkeletonValue)
-
-    def self.create_json_skeleton(fields_text : String) : SkeletonValue
-      root_hash = {} of String => SkeletonValue
-
-      FieldsParser.parse_fields(fields_text) do |nest_list|
-        current_item = root_hash
-        nest_list.each do |key|
-          if current_item[key]?
-            current_item = current_item[key]
-          else
-            current_item[key] = {} of String => SkeletonValue
-            current_item = current_item[key]
-          end
-        end
-      end
-      root_hash
-    end
-
-    def self.create_grouped_fields_list(json_skeleton : SkeletonValue) : GroupedFieldsList
-      grouped_fields_list = GroupedFieldsList.new
-      json_skeleton.each do |key, value|
-        grouped_fields_list.push key
-
-        nested_keys = create_grouped_fields_list(value)
-        grouped_fields_list.push nested_keys unless nested_keys.empty?
-      end
-      return grouped_fields_list
-    end
-  end
-
-  class FilterError < Exception
-  end
-
-  def self.filter(item : JSON::Any, fields_text : String, in_place : Bool = true)
-    skeleton = FieldsGrouper.create_json_skeleton(fields_text)
-    grouped_fields_list = FieldsGrouper.create_grouped_fields_list(skeleton)
-    filter(item, grouped_fields_list, in_place)
-  end
-
-  def self.filter(item : JSON::Any, grouped_fields_list : GroupedFieldsList, in_place : Bool = true) : JSON::Any
-    item = item.clone unless in_place
-
-    if !item.as_h? && !item.as_a?
-      raise FilterError.new "Can't filter '#{item}' by #{grouped_fields_list}"
-    end
-
-    top_level_keys = Array(String).new
-    grouped_fields_list.each do |value|
-      if value.is_a? String
-        top_level_keys.push value
-      elsif value.is_a? Array
-        if !top_level_keys.empty?
-          key_to_filter = top_level_keys.last
-
-          if item.as_h?
-            filter(item[key_to_filter], value, in_place: true)
-          elsif item.as_a?
-            item.as_a.each { |arr_item| filter(arr_item[key_to_filter], value, in_place: true) }
-          end
-        else
-          raise FilterError.new "Tried to filter while top level keys list is empty"
-        end
-      end
-    end
-
-    if item.as_h?
-      item.as_h.select! top_level_keys
-    elsif item.as_a?
-      item.as_a.map { |value| filter(value, top_level_keys, in_place: true) }
-    end
-
-    item
-  end
-end