diff --git a/packages/content-handler/package.json b/packages/content-handler/package.json
index bc6269811..832b2b4b4 100644
--- a/packages/content-handler/package.json
+++ b/packages/content-handler/package.json
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
     "linkedom": "^0.14.16",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "luxon": "^3.0.4",
-    "puppeteer-core": "^20.9.0",
     "underscore": "^1.13.6",
     "uuid": "^9.0.0"
   },
diff --git a/packages/content-handler/src/content-handler.ts b/packages/content-handler/src/content-handler.ts
index 9fef1ffe8..9c935b5fb 100644
--- a/packages/content-handler/src/content-handler.ts
+++ b/packages/content-handler/src/content-handler.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import addressparser from 'addressparser'
 import axios from 'axios'
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
-import { Browser } from 'puppeteer-core'
 import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid'
 
 interface Unsubscribe {
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ export abstract class ContentHandler {
     return false
   }
 
-  async preHandle(url: string, browser?: Browser): Promise<PreHandleResult> {
+  async preHandle(url: string): Promise<PreHandleResult> {
     return Promise.resolve({ url })
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/content-handler/src/index.ts b/packages/content-handler/src/index.ts
index 3dbe4c9d6..cf5ccf2ba 100644
--- a/packages/content-handler/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/content-handler/src/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
-import { Browser } from 'puppeteer-core'
 import {
   ContentHandler,
   NewsletterInput,
@@ -104,8 +103,7 @@ const newsletterHandlers: ContentHandler[] = [
 ]
 
 export const preHandleContent = async (
-  url: string,
-  browser: Browser
+  url: string
 ): Promise<PreHandleResult | undefined> => {
   // Before we run the regular handlers we check to see if we need tp
   // pre-resolve the URL. TODO: This should probably happen recursively,
@@ -129,7 +127,7 @@ export const preHandleContent = async (
   for (const handler of contentHandlers) {
     if (handler.shouldPreHandle(url)) {
       console.log('preHandleContent', handler.name, url)
-      return handler.preHandle(url, browser)
+      return handler.preHandle(url)
     }
   }
   return undefined
diff --git a/packages/puppeteer-parse/src/index.ts b/packages/puppeteer-parse/src/index.ts
index e8ea5e7d1..c742116b2 100644
--- a/packages/puppeteer-parse/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/puppeteer-parse/src/index.ts
@@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ export const fetchContent = async (
 
     // pre handle url with custom handlers
     try {
-      const browser = await getBrowserPromise
-      const result = await preHandleContent(url, browser)
+      const result = await preHandleContent(url)
       if (result && result.url) {
         validateUrlString(url)
         url = result.url