diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.cpp b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.cpp
index d20d398c7..5ada6e10c 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.cpp
@@ -21,9 +21,3 @@
 GeoIP::~GeoIP()
 {
 }
-
-QUrl
-GeoIP::fullUrl(const QString& configUrl)
-{
-    return QUrl::fromUserInput( configUrl );
-}
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
index 6d4992781..f05c4d383 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIP.h
@@ -36,16 +36,6 @@ struct GeoIP
 {
     using RegionZonePair = QPair<QString, QString>;
 
-    /** @brief Convert configured URL to a complete URL.
-     *
-     * Some GeoIP providers are configured with one URL, but actually
-     * do retrieval with another (e.g. when using the original
-     * implementation of FreeGeoIP, or when adding an API key).
-     *
-     * The default implementation uses the @p configUrl unchanged.
-     */
-    virtual QUrl fullUrl( const QString& configUrl );
-
     /** @brief Handle a (successful) request by interpreting the data.
      *
      * Should return a ( <zone>, <region> ) pair, e.g.
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
index be77dc2e4..354e6c011 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.cpp
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@
 
 #include <yaml-cpp/yaml.h>
 
-QUrl
-FreeGeoIP::fullUrl( const QString& configUrl )
-{
-    // FIXME: derpy way to append "/json" to the user-specified config URL
-    QString requestUrl = QString( "%1/json" )
-                         .arg( QUrl::fromUserInput( configUrl ).toString() );
-    return QUrl( requestUrl );
-}
-
 GeoIP::RegionZonePair
 FreeGeoIP::processReply( QNetworkReply* reply )
 {
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
index 3fe6157a2..474ce8496 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
+++ b/src/modules/locale/GeoIPFreeGeoIP.h
@@ -21,9 +21,16 @@
 
 #include "GeoIP.h"
 
+/** @brief GeoIP lookup via freegeoip.com
+ *
+ * This is the original implementation of GeoIP lookup,
+ * using the FreeGeoIP service, or similar which returns
+ * data in the same format.
+ *
+ * The data is assumed to be in JSON format with a time_zone attribute.
+ */
 struct FreeGeoIP : public GeoIP
 {
-    virtual QUrl fullUrl( const QString& configUrl );
     virtual RegionZonePair processReply( QNetworkReply* );
 } ;
 
diff --git a/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp b/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
index bd9bef2fe..7eaaebbf8 100644
--- a/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/locale/LocaleViewStep.cpp
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ LocaleViewStep::fetchGeoIpTimezone()
     } );
 
     QNetworkRequest request;
-    request.setUrl( handler->fullUrl( m_geoipUrl ) );
+    request.setUrl( QUrl::fromUserInput( m_geoipUrl ) );
     request.setAttribute( QNetworkRequest::FollowRedirectsAttribute, true );
     manager->get( request );
 }