diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 80749c82..22696fc4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
  "rusqlite",
  "sourceview5",
- "strip-tags",
  "syntect",
 ]
 
@@ -1352,12 +1351,6 @@ version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6ce2be8dc25455e1f91df71bfa12ad37d7af1092ae736f3a6cd0e37bc7810596"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "strip-tags"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ecd2b127e68202f5f285a116f616d5d11735cca5e4befaea0347becd445b05b2"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "2.0.117"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d08698ee..83bcd8db 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ plurify = "0.2.0"
 r2d2 = "0.8.10"
 r2d2_sqlite = "0.32.0"
 regex = "1.12.3"
-strip-tags = "0.1.0"
 syntect = "5.2.0"
 
 # development
diff --git a/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs b/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
index e845bc0b..984d1f9f 100644
--- a/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
+++ b/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ use gutter::Gutter;
 use regex::Regex;
 use sourceview::prelude::{ActionExt, ActionMapExt, DisplayExt, ToVariant};
 use std::{cell::Cell, collections::HashMap, rc::Rc};
-use strip_tags::*;
 use tags::Tags;
 
 pub struct Markdown {
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ impl Markdown {
         buffer.set_text(
             Regex::new(r"\n{3,}")
                 .unwrap()
-                .replace_all(&strip_tags(markdown), "\n\n")
+                .replace_all(markdown, "\n\n")
                 .trim(),
         ); // @TODO extract `<img>` tags?