diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/collection.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/collection.ts
index 564b4b2688..04f64d2345 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/collection.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/collection.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import { updateMagicMetadata } from "@/new/photos/services/magic-metadata";
 import { safeDirectoryName } from "@/new/photos/utils/native-fs";
 import { LS_KEYS, getData } from "@ente/shared/storage/localStorage";
 import type { User } from "@ente/shared/user/types";
-import bs58 from "bs58";
 import { t } from "i18next";
 import {
     addToCollection,
@@ -177,21 +176,6 @@ async function createCollectionDownloadFolder(
     return collectionDownloadPath;
 }
 
-export function appendCollectionKeyToShareURL(
-    url: string,
-    collectionKey: string,
-) {
-    if (!url) {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    const sharableURL = new URL(url);
-
-    const bytes = Buffer.from(collectionKey, "base64");
-    sharableURL.hash = bs58.encode(bytes);
-    return sharableURL.href;
-}
-
 const _intSelectOption = (i: number) => {
     const label = i === 0 ? t("NO_DEVICE_LIMIT") : i.toString();
     return { label, value: i };
diff --git a/web/docs/dependencies.md b/web/docs/dependencies.md
index a3c6cc5eef..11937b95c7 100644
--- a/web/docs/dependencies.md
+++ b/web/docs/dependencies.md
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ For more details, see [translations.md](translations.md).
     identifiers. For one particular use case, we also need
     [uuid](https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid) for UUID v4 generation.
 
+-   [bs58](https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/bs58) is used for base-58 conversion
+    (used for encoding the collection key to use as the hash in the share URL).
+
 -   [debounce](https://github.com/sindresorhus/debounce) and its
     promise-supporting sibling
     [pDebounce](https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-debounce) are used for