diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/Mvc/EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/Mvc/EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d044ea8dd..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/Mvc/EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Web.Mvc;
-using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
-using Umbraco.Web.Routing;
-using Umbraco.Core;
-using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
-using Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent;
-using Current = Umbraco.Web.Composing.Current;
-
-namespace Umbraco.Web.Mvc
-{
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Used for custom routed pages that are being integrated with the Umbraco data but are not
-    /// part of the umbraco request pipeline. This allows umbraco macros to be able to execute in this scenario.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <remarks>
-    /// This is inspired from this discussion:
-    /// https://our.umbraco.com/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/41367-Umbraco-6-MVC-Custom-MVC-Route?p=3
-    ///
-    /// which is based on custom routing found here:
-    /// http://shazwazza.com/post/Custom-MVC-routing-in-Umbraco
-    /// </remarks>
-    public class EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
-    {
-        // TODO: Need to port this to netcore and figure out if its needed or how this should work (part of a different task)
-
-        //private readonly string _dataTokenName;
-        //private IUmbracoContextAccessor _umbracoContextAccessor;
-        //private readonly int? _contentId;
-        //private IPublishedContentQuery _publishedContentQuery;
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// Constructor - can be used for testing
-        ///// </summary>
-        ///// <param name="umbracoContextAccessor"></param>
-        ///// <param name="contentId"></param>
-        //public EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute(IUmbracoContextAccessor umbracoContextAccessor, int contentId)
-        //{
-        //    _umbracoContextAccessor = umbracoContextAccessor ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(umbracoContextAccessor));
-        //    _contentId = contentId;
-        //}
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// A constructor used to set an explicit content Id to the PublishedRequest that will be created
-        ///// </summary>
-        ///// <param name="contentId"></param>
-        //public EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute(int contentId)
-        //{
-        //    _contentId = contentId;
-        //}
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// A constructor used to set the data token key name that contains a reference to a PublishedContent instance
-        ///// </summary>
-        ///// <param name="dataTokenName"></param>
-        //public EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute(string dataTokenName)
-        //{
-        //    _dataTokenName = dataTokenName;
-        //}
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// Constructor - can be used for testing
-        ///// </summary>
-        ///// <param name="umbracoContextAccessor"></param>
-        ///// <param name="dataTokenName"></param>
-        //public EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute(IUmbracoContextAccessor umbracoContextAccessor, string dataTokenName)
-        //{
-        //    _umbracoContextAccessor = umbracoContextAccessor ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(umbracoContextAccessor));
-        //    _dataTokenName = dataTokenName;
-        //}
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// Exposes the UmbracoContext
-        ///// </summary>
-        //protected IUmbracoContext UmbracoContext => _umbracoContextAccessor?.UmbracoContext ?? Current.UmbracoContext;
-
-        //// TODO: try lazy property injection?
-        //private IPublishedRouter PublishedRouter => Current.Factory.GetRequiredService<IPublishedRouter>();
-
-        //private IPublishedContentQuery PublishedContentQuery => _publishedContentQuery ?? (_publishedContentQuery = Current.Factory.GetRequiredService<IPublishedContentQuery>());
-
-        //public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
-        //{
-        //    base.OnActionExecuted(filterContext);
-
-        //    // First we need to check if the published content request has been set, if it has we're going to ignore this and not actually do anything
-        //    if (Current.UmbracoContext.PublishedRequest != null)
-        //    {
-        //        return;
-        //    }
-
-        //    Current.UmbracoContext.PublishedRequest = PublishedRouter.CreateRequest(Current.UmbracoContext);
-        //    ConfigurePublishedContentRequest(Current.UmbracoContext.PublishedRequest, filterContext);
-        //}
-
-        ///// <summary>
-        ///// This assigns the published content to the request, developers can override this to specify
-        ///// any other custom attributes required.
-        ///// </summary>
-        ///// <param name="request"></param>
-        ///// <param name="filterContext"></param>
-        //protected virtual void ConfigurePublishedContentRequest(IPublishedRequest request, ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
-        //{
-        //    if (_contentId.HasValue)
-        //    {
-        //        var content = PublishedContentQuery.Content(_contentId.Value);
-        //        if (content == null)
-        //        {
-        //            throw new InvalidOperationException("Could not resolve content with id " + _contentId);
-        //        }
-        //        request.PublishedContent = content;
-        //    }
-        //    else if (_dataTokenName.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() == false)
-        //    {
-        //        var result = filterContext.RouteData.DataTokens[_dataTokenName];
-        //        if (result == null)
-        //        {
-        //            throw new InvalidOperationException("No data token could be found with the name " + _dataTokenName);
-        //        }
-        //        if (result is IPublishedContent == false)
-        //        {
-        //            throw new InvalidOperationException("The data token resolved with name " + _dataTokenName + " was not an instance of " + typeof(IPublishedContent));
-        //        }
-        //        request.PublishedContent = (IPublishedContent)result;
-        //    }
-
-        //    PublishedRouter.PrepareRequest(request);
-        //}
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
index b56b4b1450..efdcbba045 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@
     <Compile Include="WebApi\SessionHttpControllerRouteHandler.cs" />
     <Compile Include="WebApi\UmbracoApiControllerTypeCollectionBuilder.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\UmbracoVirtualNodeByIdRouteHandler.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Mvc\EnsurePublishedContentRequestAttribute.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\UmbracoVirtualNodeRouteHandler.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Security\AuthenticationOptionsExtensions.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewDataDictionaryExtensions.cs" />