diff --git a/src/components/Background.jsx b/src/components/Background.jsx
index 69425261..1380d077 100644
--- a/src/components/Background.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Background.jsx
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import Fetch from 'unfetch';
 
-const getCookie = (cookiename) =>  {
-    const cookiestring = RegExp('' + cookiename + '[^;]+').exec(document.cookie);
-    return unescape(!!cookiestring ? cookiestring.toString().replace(/^[^=]+./,'') : '');
-};
-  
 const randomInt = (min, max) => { return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min; };
   
 export default class Background extends React.Component {
@@ -17,18 +12,9 @@ export default class Background extends React.Component {
       let data = await Fetch('https://api.muetab.xyz/getImage?category=Outdoors');
       data     = await data.json(); 
 
-      const checkRepeat = getCookie('backgroundimageurl');
+      root.style.backgroundImage = `url(${data.file})`;
       document.getElementById('photographer').innerText = `Photo by ${data.photographer}`;
-      document.getElementById('location').innerText     = `${data.location}`;
-
-      if (checkRepeat !== root.style.backgroundImage) root.style.backgroundImage = `url(${data.file})`;
-      else {
-        /*let data = await Fetch('https://api.muetab.xyz/getImage?category=Outdoors');
-        data = await data.json();*/ 
-        document.cookie            = 'backgroundimageurl; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC; path=/;';
-        root.style.backgroundImage = `url(${data.file})`;
-        document.cookie            = `backgroundimageurl=${data.file}`;
-      }
+      document.getElementById('location').innerText     = `${data.location}`;   
     } catch (e) {
       document.getElementById('backgroundCredits').style.display = 'none';
       document.getElementById('photographer').innerText          = 'Photo from Pexels';