diff --git a/app/controllers/uploads_controller.rb b/app/controllers/uploads_controller.rb
index a4df65274..f5ce14ca2 100644
--- a/app/controllers/uploads_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/uploads_controller.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class UploadsController < ApplicationController
 
   def new
     @upload_notice_wiki = WikiPage.titled(Danbooru.config.upload_notice_wiki_page).first
-    @upload, @post, @source, @remote_size = UploadService::ControllerHelper.prepare(
+    @upload, @remote_size = UploadService::ControllerHelper.prepare(
       url: params[:url], ref: params[:ref]
     )
     respond_with(@upload)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class UploadsController < ApplicationController
   end
 
   def preprocess
-    @upload, @post, @source, @remote_size = UploadService::ControllerHelper.prepare(
+    @upload, @remote_size = UploadService::ControllerHelper.prepare(
       url: upload_params[:source], file: upload_params[:file], ref: upload_params[:referer_url]
     )
     render body: nil
diff --git a/app/logical/upload_service/controller_helper.rb b/app/logical/upload_service/controller_helper.rb
index d401be88b..ed69803c7 100644
--- a/app/logical/upload_service/controller_helper.rb
+++ b/app/logical/upload_service/controller_helper.rb
@@ -4,14 +4,8 @@ class UploadService
       upload = Upload.new
 
       if Utils.is_downloadable?(url) && file.nil?
-        strategy = Sources::Strategies.find(url, ref)
-        post = Post.where("SourcePattern(lower(posts.source)) IN (?)", [url, strategy.canonical_url]).first
-
-        if post.nil?
-          # this gets called from UploadsController#new so we need
-          # to preprocess async
-          Preprocessor.new(source: url, referer_url: ref).delay(priority: -1, queue: "default").delayed_start(CurrentUser.id)
-        end
+        # this gets called from UploadsController#new so we need to preprocess async
+        Preprocessor.new(source: url, referer_url: ref).delay(priority: -1, queue: "default").delayed_start(CurrentUser.id)
 
         begin
           download = Downloads::File.new(url, ref)
@@ -19,7 +13,7 @@ class UploadService
         rescue Exception
         end
 
-        return [upload, post, strategy, remote_size]
+        return [upload, remote_size]
       end
 
       if file
@@ -36,4 +30,4 @@ class UploadService
       end
     end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/app/views/sources/_info.html.erb b/app/views/sources/_info.html.erb
index 69780a02f..8dfb9ed0f 100644
--- a/app/views/sources/_info.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/sources/_info.html.erb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<%# source %>
-
 <div id="source-info">
   <p><%= link_to "Fetch source data", source_path(:format => "json"), :id => "fetch-data-manual" %></p>
   <p><%= content_tag "span", "Loading source data...", :id => "loading-data", :style => "display: none;" %></p>
diff --git a/app/views/uploads/_post.html.erb b/app/views/uploads/_post.html.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index d2b5a4258..000000000
--- a/app/views/uploads/_post.html.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<%# post %>
-<% if post %>
-  <h2 style="margin-bottom: 1em;">
-    This post was probably already uploaded (<%= link_to "post ##{post.id}", post_path(post), :target => "_blank" %>)
-  </h2>
-<% end %>
diff --git a/app/views/uploads/new.html.erb b/app/views/uploads/new.html.erb
index 394a9cb79..ebc3758a2 100644
--- a/app/views/uploads/new.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/uploads/new.html.erb
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
       <% end %>
 
       <%= render "image" %>
-      <%= render "post", :post => @post %>
-      <%= render "sources/info", :source => @source %>
+      <%= render "sources/info" %>
 
       <div id="client-errors" class="error-messages ui-state-error ui-corner-all" style="display:none"></div>