diff --git a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Classes/Middleware/HtmlCompress.php b/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Classes/Middleware/HtmlCompress.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 80ea0b71..00000000
--- a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Classes/Middleware/HtmlCompress.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace EP\EpTheme\Middleware;
-
-use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
-use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
-use Psr\Http\Server\MiddlewareInterface;
-use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
-use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Configuration\ExtensionConfiguration;
-use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Http\StreamFactory;
-use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility;
-use WyriHaximus\HtmlCompress\Factory;
-
-class HtmlCompress implements MiddlewareInterface
-{
-    public function process(ServerRequestInterface $request, RequestHandlerInterface $handler): ResponseInterface
-    {
-        $response = $handler->handle($request);
-
-        $compressionEnabled = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ExtensionConfiguration::class)
-            ->get('ep_theme', 'compressHtml');
-
-        if (false === (bool)$compressionEnabled || $this->isTypeNumSet($request)) {
-            return $response;
-        }
-
-        $stream = $response->getBody();
-        $stream->rewind();
-        $content = $stream->getContents();
-        $newBody = (new StreamFactory())->createStream($this->compressHtml($content));
-        $response = $response->withBody($newBody);
-
-        return $response;
-    }
-
-    protected function compressHtml(string $html): string
-    {
-        $parser = Factory::construct();
-        $html = $parser->compress($html);
-        $html = $this->removeComments($html);
-
-        return $html;
-    }
-
-    protected function removeComments(string $html): string
-    {
-        return preg_replace('/<!--((?!TYPO3SEARCH)[\s\S])*?-->/', '', $html);
-    }
-
-    protected function isTypeNumSet(ServerRequestInterface $request): bool
-    {
-        return $request->getAttribute('routing')->getPageType() > 0;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Configuration/RequestMiddlewares.php b/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Configuration/RequestMiddlewares.php
index 42336d11..ec4ed8b7 100644
--- a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Configuration/RequestMiddlewares.php
+++ b/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Configuration/RequestMiddlewares.php
@@ -8,14 +8,5 @@ return [
                 'typo3/cms-frontend/site',
             ],
         ],
-        'ep/html-compress' => [
-            'target' => \EP\EpTheme\Middleware\HtmlCompress::class,
-            'before' => [
-                'typo3/cms-frontend/output-compression'
-            ],
-            'after' => [
-                'typo3/cms-adminpanel/renderer'
-            ],
-        ],
     ],
 ];