diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index a4588b3f73..e876d25a3f 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -499,36 +499,6 @@ if (!defined("SIGTERM")) {
 if (!defined('CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT')) {
 	define('CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT', CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEOUTED);
 }
-/**
- * Reverse the effect of magic_quotes_gpc if it is enabled.
- * Please disable magic_quotes_gpc so we don't have to do this.
- * See http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php
- */
-function startup()
-{
-	error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
-
-	set_time_limit(0);
-
-	// This has to be quite large to deal with embedded private photos
-	ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 500000);
-
-	if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
-		$process = [&$_GET, &$_POST, &$_COOKIE, &$_REQUEST];
-		while (list($key, $val) = each($process)) {
-			foreach ($val as $k => $v) {
-				unset($process[$key][$k]);
-				if (is_array($v)) {
-					$process[$key][stripslashes($k)] = $v;
-					$process[] = &$process[$key][stripslashes($k)];
-				} else {
-					$process[$key][stripslashes($k)] = stripslashes($v);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		unset($process);
-	}
-}
 
 /**
  * @brief Retrieve the App structure
diff --git a/src/App.php b/src/App.php
index f5626761e5..22678f53ee 100644
--- a/src/App.php
+++ b/src/App.php
@@ -181,7 +181,10 @@ class App
 
 		$this->process_id = uniqid('log', true);
 
-		startup();
+		set_time_limit(0);
+
+		// This has to be quite large to deal with embedded private photos
+		ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 500000);
 
 		$this->scheme = 'http';