diff --git a/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseMessage.tsx b/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseMessage.tsx
index abd26ed191a3..cbc8aa6039d2 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseMessage.tsx
+++ b/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseMessage.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
-import LinkPreview from './LinkPreview';
 import ImagePreview from './ImagePreview';
-import GooseResponseForm from './GooseResponseForm';
-import { extractUrls } from '../utils/urlUtils';
 import { extractImagePaths, removeImagePathsFromText } from '../utils/imageUtils';
 import { formatMessageTimestamp } from '../utils/timeUtils';
 import MarkdownContent from './MarkdownContent';
@@ -44,7 +41,6 @@ export default function GooseMessage({
   sessionId,
   messageHistoryIndex,
   message,
-  metadata,
   messages,
   toolCallNotifications,
   append,
@@ -135,15 +131,6 @@ export default function GooseMessage({
 
   // Get the chain this message belongs to
   const messageChain = getChainForMessage(messageIndex, toolCallChains);
-
-  // Extract URLs under a few conditions
-  // 1. The message is purely text
-  // 2. The link wasn't also present in the previous message
-  // 3. The message contains the explicit http:// or https:// protocol at the beginning
-  const previousMessage = messageIndex > 0 ? messages[messageIndex - 1] : null;
-  const previousUrls = previousMessage ? extractUrls(getTextContent(previousMessage)) : [];
-  const urls = toolRequests.length === 0 ? extractUrls(displayText, previousUrls) : [];
-
   const toolConfirmationContent = getToolConfirmationContent(message);
   const hasToolConfirmation = toolConfirmationContent !== undefined;
 
@@ -302,27 +289,6 @@ export default function GooseMessage({
           />
         )}
       </div>
-
-      {/* TODO(alexhancock): Re-enable link previews once styled well again */}
-      {/* TEMPORARILY DISABLED (dorien-koelemeijer): This is causing issues in properly "generating" tool calls
-       that contain links and prevents security scanning */}
-      {/* eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-binary-expression */}
-      {false && urls.length > 0 && (
-        <div className="mt-4">
-          {urls.map((url, index) => (
-            <LinkPreview key={index} url={url} />
-          ))}
-        </div>
-      )}
-
-      {/* enable or disable prompts here */}
-      {/* NOTE from alexhancock on 1/14/2025 - disabling again temporarily due to non-determinism in when the forms show up */}
-      {/* eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-binary-expression */}
-      {false && metadata && (
-        <div className="flex mt-[16px]">
-          <GooseResponseForm message={displayText} metadata={metadata || null} append={append} />
-        </div>
-      )}
     </div>
   );
 }
diff --git a/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseResponseForm.tsx b/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseResponseForm.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d6855c32f10..000000000000
--- a/ui/desktop/src/components/GooseResponseForm.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,237 +0,0 @@
-import React, { useState, useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
-import MarkdownContent from './MarkdownContent';
-import { Button } from './ui/button';
-import { cn } from '../utils';
-import { Send } from './icons';
-// Prefixing unused imports with underscore
-import { createUserMessage as _createUserMessage } from '../types/message';
-
-interface FormField {
-  label: string;
-  type: 'text' | 'textarea';
-  name: string;
-  placeholder: string;
-  required: boolean;
-}
-
-interface DynamicForm {
-  title: string;
-  description: string;
-  fields: FormField[];
-}
-
-interface GooseResponseFormProps {
-  message: string;
-  metadata: string[] | null;
-  append: (value: string) => void;
-}
-
-export default function GooseResponseForm({
-  message: _message,
-  metadata,
-  append,
-}: GooseResponseFormProps) {
-  const [selectedOption, setSelectedOption] = useState<number | null>(null);
-  const [formValues, setFormValues] = useState<Record<string, string>>({});
-  const prevStatusRef = useRef<string | null>(null);
-
-  let isQuestion = false;
-  let isOptions = false;
-  let options: Array<{ optionTitle: string; optionDescription: string }> = [];
-  let dynamicForm: DynamicForm | null = null;
-
-  if (metadata) {
-    window.electron.logInfo('metadata:' + JSON.stringify(metadata, null, 2));
-  }
-
-  // Process metadata outside of conditional
-  const currentStatus = metadata?.[0] ?? null;
-  isQuestion = currentStatus === 'QUESTION';
-  isOptions = metadata?.[1] === 'OPTIONS';
-
-  // Parse dynamic form data if it exists in metadata[3]
-  if (metadata?.[3]) {
-    try {
-      dynamicForm = JSON.parse(metadata[3]);
-    } catch (err) {
-      console.error('Failed to parse form data:', err);
-      dynamicForm = null;
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (isQuestion && isOptions && metadata?.[2]) {
-    try {
-      let optionsData = metadata[2];
-      // Use a regular expression to extract the JSON block
-      const jsonBlockMatch = optionsData.match(/```json([\s\S]*?)```/);
-
-      // If a JSON block is found, extract and clean it
-      if (jsonBlockMatch) {
-        optionsData = jsonBlockMatch[1].trim(); // Extract the content inside the block
-      } else {
-        // Optionally, handle the case where there is no explicit ```json block
-        console.warn('No JSON block found in the provided string.');
-      }
-      options = JSON.parse(optionsData);
-      options = options.filter(
-        (opt) => typeof opt.optionTitle === 'string' && typeof opt.optionDescription === 'string'
-      );
-    } catch (err) {
-      console.error('Failed to parse options data:', err);
-      options = [];
-    }
-  }
-
-  // Move useEffect to top level
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const currentMetadataStatus = metadata?.[0];
-    const shouldNotify =
-      currentMetadataStatus &&
-      (currentMetadataStatus === 'QUESTION' || currentMetadataStatus === 'OPTIONS') &&
-      prevStatusRef.current !== currentMetadataStatus;
-
-    if (shouldNotify) {
-      window.electron.showNotification({
-        title: 'Goose has a question for you',
-        body: `Please check with Goose to approve the plan of action`,
-      });
-    }
-
-    prevStatusRef.current = currentMetadataStatus ?? null;
-  }, [metadata]);
-
-  const handleOptionClick = (index: number) => {
-    setSelectedOption(index);
-  };
-
-  const handleAccept = () => {
-    append('Yes - go ahead.');
-  };
-
-  const handleSubmit = () => {
-    if (selectedOption !== null && options[selectedOption]) {
-      append(`Yes - continue with: ${options[selectedOption].optionTitle}`);
-    }
-  };
-
-  const handleFormSubmit = (e: React.FormEvent) => {
-    e.preventDefault();
-    if (dynamicForm) {
-      append(JSON.stringify(formValues));
-    }
-  };
-
-  const handleFormChange = (name: string, value: string) => {
-    setFormValues((prev) => ({
-      ...prev,
-      [name]: value,
-    }));
-  };
-
-  if (!metadata) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  function isForm(f: DynamicForm | null): f is DynamicForm {
-    return (
-      !!f &&
-      !!f.title &&
-      !!f.description &&
-      !!f.fields &&
-      Array.isArray(f.fields) &&
-      f.fields.length > 0
-    );
-  }
-
-  return (
-    <div className="space-y-4">
-      {isQuestion && !isOptions && !isForm(dynamicForm) && (
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-4 p-4 rounded-lg bg-tool-card dark:bg-tool-card-dark border dark:border-dark-border">
-          <Button onClick={handleAccept} className="w-full sm:w-auto">
-            <Send className="h-[14px] w-[14px]" />
-            Take flight with this plan
-          </Button>
-        </div>
-      )}
-      {isQuestion && isOptions && Array.isArray(options) && options.length > 0 && (
-        <div className="space-y-4">
-          {options.map((opt, index) => (
-            <div
-              key={index}
-              onClick={() => handleOptionClick(index)}
-              className={cn(
-                'p-4 rounded-lg border transition-colors cursor-pointer',
-                selectedOption === index
-                  ? 'bg-primary/10 dark:bg-dark-primary border-primary dark:border-dark-primary'
-                  : 'bg-tool-card dark:bg-tool-card-dark hover:bg-accent dark:hover:bg-dark-accent'
-              )}
-            >
-              <h3 className="font-semibold text-lg mb-2 dark:text-gray-100">{opt.optionTitle}</h3>
-              <div className="prose prose-xs max-w-none dark:text-gray-100">
-                <MarkdownContent content={opt.optionDescription} />
-              </div>
-            </div>
-          ))}
-          <Button
-            onClick={handleSubmit}
-            variant="default"
-            className="w-full sm:w-auto dark:bg-button-dark"
-            disabled={selectedOption === null}
-          >
-            <Send className="h-[14px] w-[14px]" />
-            Select plan
-          </Button>
-        </div>
-      )}
-      {isForm(dynamicForm) && !isOptions && (
-        <form
-          onSubmit={handleFormSubmit}
-          className="space-y-4 p-4 rounded-lg bg-tool-card dark:bg-tool-card-dark border dark:border-dark-border"
-        >
-          <h2 className="text-xl font-medium mb-2 dark:text-gray-100">{dynamicForm.title}</h2>
-          <p className="text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-300 mb-4">{dynamicForm.description}</p>
-
-          {dynamicForm.fields.map((field) => (
-            <div key={field.name} className="space-y-2">
-              <label
-                htmlFor={field.name}
-                className="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-200"
-              >
-                {field.label}
-                {field.required && <span className="text-red-500 ml-1">*</span>}
-              </label>
-              {field.type === 'textarea' ? (
-                <textarea
-                  id={field.name}
-                  name={field.name}
-                  placeholder={field.placeholder}
-                  required={field.required}
-                  value={formValues[field.name] || ''}
-                  onChange={(e) => handleFormChange(field.name, e.target.value)}
-                  className="w-full p-2 border rounded-md dark:bg-gray-700 dark:border-gray-600 dark:text-gray-100"
-                  rows={4}
-                />
-              ) : (
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  id={field.name}
-                  name={field.name}
-                  placeholder={field.placeholder}
-                  required={field.required}
-                  value={formValues[field.name] || ''}
-                  onChange={(e) => handleFormChange(field.name, e.target.value)}
-                  className="w-full p-2 border rounded-md dark:bg-gray-700 dark:border-gray-600 dark:text-gray-100"
-                />
-              )}
-            </div>
-          ))}
-
-          <Button type="submit" className="w-full sm:w-auto mt-4">
-            <Send className="h-[14px] w-[14px]" />
-            Submit Form
-          </Button>
-        </form>
-      )}
-    </div>
-  );
-}
diff --git a/ui/desktop/src/components/LinkPreview.tsx b/ui/desktop/src/components/LinkPreview.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 355d9154eebc..000000000000
--- a/ui/desktop/src/components/LinkPreview.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
-import { Card } from './ui/card';
-
-interface Metadata {
-  title?: string;
-  description?: string;
-  favicon?: string;
-  image?: string;
-  url: string;
-}
-
-interface LinkPreviewProps {
-  url: string;
-}
-
-async function fetchMetadata(url: string): Promise<Metadata> {
-  try {
-    // Fetch the HTML content using the main process
-    const html = await window.electron.fetchMetadata(url);
-    const parser = new DOMParser();
-    const doc = parser.parseFromString(html, 'text/html');
-    const baseUrl = new URL(url);
-
-    // Extract title
-    const title =
-      doc.querySelector('title')?.textContent ||
-      doc.querySelector('meta[property="og:title"]')?.getAttribute('content');
-
-    // Extract description
-    const description =
-      doc.querySelector('meta[name="description"]')?.getAttribute('content') ||
-      doc.querySelector('meta[property="og:description"]')?.getAttribute('content');
-
-    // Extract favicon
-    const faviconLink =
-      doc.querySelector('link[rel="icon"]') ||
-      doc.querySelector('link[rel="shortcut icon"]') ||
-      doc.querySelector('link[rel="apple-touch-icon"]') ||
-      doc.querySelector('link[rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"]');
-
-    let favicon = faviconLink?.getAttribute('href');
-    if (favicon) {
-      favicon = new URL(favicon, baseUrl).toString();
-    } else {
-      // Fallback to /favicon.ico
-      favicon = new URL('/favicon.ico', baseUrl).toString();
-    }
-
-    // Extract OpenGraph image
-    let image = doc.querySelector('meta[property="og:image"]')?.getAttribute('content');
-    if (image) {
-      image = new URL(image, baseUrl).toString();
-    }
-
-    return {
-      title: title || url,
-      description: description || undefined,
-      favicon,
-      image: image || undefined,
-      url,
-    };
-  } catch (error) {
-    console.error('❌ Error fetching metadata:', error);
-    return {
-      title: url,
-      description: undefined,
-      favicon: undefined,
-      image: undefined,
-      url,
-    };
-  }
-}
-
-export default function LinkPreview({ url }: LinkPreviewProps) {
-  const [metadata, setMetadata] = useState<Metadata | null>(null);
-  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
-  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    let mounted = true;
-
-    const fetchData = async () => {
-      try {
-        const data = await fetchMetadata(url);
-        if (mounted) {
-          setMetadata(data);
-        }
-      } catch (err) {
-        if (mounted) {
-          console.error('❌ Failed to fetch metadata:', err);
-          const errorMessage = err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'Failed to fetch metadata';
-          setError(errorMessage);
-        }
-      } finally {
-        if (mounted) {
-          setLoading(false);
-        }
-      }
-    };
-
-    fetchData();
-    return () => {
-      mounted = false;
-    };
-  }, [url]);
-
-  if (loading) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  if (error) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  if (!metadata || !metadata.title) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  return (
-    <a href={url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
-      <Card className="max-w-[300px] truncate flex items-center bg-link-preview dark:bg-link-preview-dark p-3 transition-colors cursor-pointer">
-        {metadata.favicon && (
-          <img
-            src={metadata.favicon}
-            alt="Site favicon"
-            className="w-4 h-4 mr-2"
-            onError={(e) => {
-              e.currentTarget.style.display = 'none';
-            }}
-          />
-        )}
-        <div className="flex-1 min-w-0">
-          <h4 className="text-sm font-medium truncate">{metadata.title || url}</h4>
-          {metadata.description && (
-            <p className="text-xs text-gray-500 truncate">{metadata.description}</p>
-          )}
-        </div>
-        {metadata.image && (
-          <img
-            src={metadata.image}
-            alt="Preview"
-            className="w-16 h-16 object-cover rounded ml-3"
-            onError={(e) => {
-              e.currentTarget.style.display = 'none';
-            }}
-          />
-        )}
-      </Card>
-    </a>
-  );
-}
diff --git a/ui/desktop/src/components/UserMessage.tsx b/ui/desktop/src/components/UserMessage.tsx
index 2e4dd18ca733..ef9a4aaa6ec5 100644
--- a/ui/desktop/src/components/UserMessage.tsx
+++ b/ui/desktop/src/components/UserMessage.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import { useRef, useMemo, useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';
-import LinkPreview from './LinkPreview';
 import ImagePreview from './ImagePreview';
-import { extractUrls } from '../utils/urlUtils';
 import { extractImagePaths, removeImagePathsFromText } from '../utils/imageUtils';
 import MarkdownContent from './MarkdownContent';
 import { Message, getTextContent } from '../types/message';
@@ -38,9 +36,6 @@ export default function UserMessage({ message, onMessageUpdate }: UserMessagePro
   // Memoize the timestamp
   const timestamp = useMemo(() => formatMessageTimestamp(message.created), [message.created]);
 
-  // Extract URLs which explicitly contain the http:// or https:// protocol
-  const urls = useMemo(() => extractUrls(displayText, []), [displayText]);
-
   // Effect to handle message content changes and ensure persistence
   useEffect(() => {
     // Log content display for debugging
@@ -253,18 +248,6 @@ export default function UserMessage({ message, onMessageUpdate }: UserMessagePro
             Edited
           </div>
         )}
-
-        {/* TODO(alexhancock): Re-enable link previews once styled well again */}
-        {/* TEMPORARILY DISABLED (dorien-koelemeijer): This is causing issues in properly "generating" tool calls
-       that contain links and prevents security scanning */}
-        {/* eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-binary-expression */}
-        {false && urls.length > 0 && (
-          <div className="flex flex-wrap mt-2">
-            {urls.map((url, index) => (
-              <LinkPreview key={index} url={url} />
-            ))}
-          </div>
-        )}
       </div>
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/ui/desktop/src/utils/urlUtils.ts b/ui/desktop/src/utils/urlUtils.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a33ad5f3dd8a..000000000000
--- a/ui/desktop/src/utils/urlUtils.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-// Helper to normalize URLs for comparison
-function normalizeUrl(url: string): string {
-  try {
-    const parsed = new URL(url.toLowerCase());
-    // Remove trailing slashes and normalize protocol
-    return `${parsed.protocol}//${parsed.host}${parsed.pathname.replace(/\/$/, '')}${parsed.search}${parsed.hash}`;
-  } catch {
-    // If URL parsing fails, just lowercase it
-    return url.toLowerCase();
-  }
-}
-
-// Helper to determine if a link should be included in results
-function linkIsEligible(url: string): boolean {
-  try {
-    const parsed = new URL(url.toLowerCase());
-    const ineligibleHosts = ['localhost', '127.0.0.1'];
-    return !ineligibleHosts.some((host) => parsed.hostname.includes(host));
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
-}
-
-export function extractUrls(content: string, previousUrls: string[] = []): string[] {
-  let remainingContent = content;
-  const extractedUrls: string[] = [];
-
-  // First, extract markdown links
-  const markdownLinkRegex = /\[([^\]]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[^)]+)\)/g;
-  const markdownMatches = Array.from(content.matchAll(markdownLinkRegex));
-
-  // Add markdown URLs to our results and remove them from the content
-  markdownMatches.forEach((match) => {
-    extractedUrls.push(match[2]);
-    // Replace the entire markdown link with whitespace to preserve string indices
-    remainingContent = remainingContent.replace(match[0], ' '.repeat(match[0].length));
-  });
-
-  // Now look for standalone URLs in the remaining content
-  const urlRegex = /(https?:\/\/[^\s<>"']+)/g;
-  const urlMatches = Array.from(remainingContent.matchAll(urlRegex));
-  const standardUrls = urlMatches.map((match) => match[1]);
-  extractedUrls.push(...standardUrls);
-
-  // Remove duplicates
-  const uniqueCurrentUrls = [...new Set(extractedUrls)];
-
-  // Filter out ineligible URLs
-  const eligibleUrls = uniqueCurrentUrls.filter(linkIsEligible);
-
-  // Normalize all URLs for comparison
-  const normalizedPreviousUrls = previousUrls.map(normalizeUrl);
-  const normalizedCurrentUrls = eligibleUrls.map(normalizeUrl);
-
-  // Filter out duplicates from previous URLs
-  const uniqueUrls = eligibleUrls.filter((_url, index) => {
-    const normalized = normalizedCurrentUrls[index];
-    const isDuplicate = normalizedPreviousUrls.some(
-      (prevUrl) => normalizeUrl(prevUrl) === normalized
-    );
-    return !isDuplicate;
-  });
-
-  return uniqueUrls;
-}