diff --git a/.distignore b/.distignore
index d0c5bdb8b..eca30b739 100644
--- a/.distignore
+++ b/.distignore
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ resources/
 !vendor/mollie/mollie-api-php/Resources
 vendor/**/test*
 vendor/mollie/mollie-api-php/examples/
-languages/*.po
+languages/
 bin/
 *.lock
 composer.json
diff --git a/.psalm/stubs.php b/.psalm/stubs.php
index b0916a8fc..dc6613dff 100644
--- a/.psalm/stubs.php
+++ b/.psalm/stubs.php
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ function as_unschedule_action($string) {}
 function mollieWooCommerceIsCheckoutContext() {}
 function wcs_get_subscriptions($subs) {}
 function mollieWooCommerceFormatCurrencyValue($value, $currency){}
-function mollieDeleteWPTranslationFiles(){}
 function mollieWooCommerceIsPayPalButtonEnabled($page){}
 function mollieWooCommerceIsApplePayDirectEnabled($page){}
 function mollieWooCommerceCheckIfNeedShipping($product){}
diff --git a/inc/utils.php b/inc/utils.php
index 75427b863..2acee663a 100644
--- a/inc/utils.php
+++ b/inc/utils.php
@@ -190,50 +190,6 @@ function mollieWooCommerceFormatCurrencyValue($value, $currency)
     return number_format($value, 2, '.', '');
 }
 
-function mollieUpdateCompleted($upgrader_object, $options)
-{
-    //whenever something gets updated they update the languages, we need to delete them
-    mollieDeleteWPTranslationFiles();
-}
-
-function mollieDeleteWPTranslationFiles()
-{
-    if (!function_exists('WP_Filesystem')) {
-        require_once ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/includes/file.php';
-    }
-    WP_Filesystem();
-    global $wp_filesystem;
-    if (!$wp_filesystem) {
-        return;
-    }
-    $remote_destination = $wp_filesystem->find_folder(WP_LANG_DIR);
-    if (!$wp_filesystem->exists($remote_destination)) {
-        return;
-    }
-    $languageExtensions = [
-        'de_DE',
-        'de_DE_formal',
-        'es_ES',
-        'fr_FR',
-        'it_IT',
-        'nl_BE',
-        'nl_NL',
-        'nl_NL_formal',
-        'en_GB',
-        'nl_BE_formal',
-    ];
-    $translationExtensions = ['.mo', '.po', '.l10n.php'];
-    $destination = WP_LANG_DIR
-        . '/plugins/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce-';
-    foreach ($languageExtensions as $languageExtension) {
-        foreach ($translationExtensions as $translationExtension) {
-            $file = $destination . $languageExtension
-                . $translationExtension;
-            $wp_filesystem->delete($file, false);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 function transformPhoneToNLFormat($phone)
 {
     $startsWith06 = preg_match('/^06/', $phone);
diff --git a/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce.php b/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce.php
index 2085bf537..fbafd7de6 100644
--- a/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce.php
+++ b/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce.php
@@ -47,20 +47,6 @@
     define('M4W_PLUGIN_URL', plugin_dir_url(M4W_FILE));
 }
 
-/**
- * Called when plugin is activated
- */
-function mollie_wc_plugin_activation_hook()
-{
-    require_once __DIR__ . '/inc/functions.php';
-
-    if (!mollie_wc_plugin_autoload()) {
-        return;
-    }
-
-    mollieDeleteWPTranslationFiles();
-}
-
 
 function mollie_wc_plugin_autoload()
 {
@@ -174,5 +160,3 @@ function initialize()
 }
 
 add_action('plugins_loaded', __NAMESPACE__ . '\\initialize');
-
-register_activation_hook(M4W_FILE, __NAMESPACE__ . '\mollie_wc_plugin_activation_hook');
diff --git a/src/Activation/ActivationModule.php b/src/Activation/ActivationModule.php
index 598bcef29..cfab7d182 100644
--- a/src/Activation/ActivationModule.php
+++ b/src/Activation/ActivationModule.php
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ public function run(ContainerInterface $container): bool
             [$this, 'pluginInit']
         );
         $this->declareCompatibleWithHPOS();
-        $this->handleTranslations();
         $this->mollieWcNoticeApiKeyMissing();
         $this->appleValidationFileRewriteRules();
         return true;
@@ -77,20 +76,6 @@ public function initDb()
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     *
-     */
-    public function handleTranslations(): void
-    {
-        add_action('upgrader_process_complete', 'mollieUpdateCompleted', 10, 2);
-        // we need to handle this version specifically, we can remove this on the next
-        $translationFlag = get_option('mollie_plugin_update_translation');
-        if ($translationFlag !== 'yes') {
-            mollieDeleteWPTranslationFiles();
-            update_option('mollie_plugin_update_translation', 'yes');
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      *
      */