diff --git a/src/main/java/gui/webdiff/WebDiff.java b/src/main/java/gui/webdiff/WebDiff.java
index 5cf67c5a2b..5d7702cbd6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/gui/webdiff/WebDiff.java
+++ b/src/main/java/gui/webdiff/WebDiff.java
@@ -8,14 +8,9 @@
 import spark.Spark;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.Paths;
 
 import static spark.Spark.*;
 
-;
-
 public class WebDiff  {
     public static final String JQUERY_JS_URL = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js";
     public static final String BOOTSTRAP_CSS_URL = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css";
@@ -95,9 +90,4 @@ private static String render(Renderable r) throws IOException {
         r.renderOn(c);
         return c.toHtml();
     }
-
-    private static String readFile(String path, Charset encoding)  throws IOException {
-        byte[] encoded = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(path));
-        return new String(encoded, encoding);
-    }
 }