diff --git a/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js b/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js
index 183279ee9..450989d71 100644
--- a/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js
+++ b/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js
@@ -146,23 +146,6 @@ class FdoNotificationDaemon {
 
         hints = Params.parse(hints, {urgency: Urgency.NORMAL}, true);
 
-        // Filter out chat, presence, calls and invitation notifications from
-        // Empathy, since we handle that information from telepathyClient.js
-        //
-        // Note that empathy uses im.received for one to one chats and
-        // x-empathy.im.mentioned for multi-user, so we're good here
-        if (appName === 'Empathy' && hints['category'] === 'im.received') {
-            // Ignore replacesId since we already sent back a
-            // NotificationClosed for that id.
-            id = this._nextNotificationId++;
-            let idleId = GLib.idle_add(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, () => {
-                this._emitNotificationClosed(id, NotificationClosedReason.DISMISSED);
-                return GLib.SOURCE_REMOVE;
-            });
-            GLib.Source.set_name_by_id(idleId, '[gnome-shell] this._emitNotificationClosed');
-            return invocation.return_value(GLib.Variant.new('(u)', [id]));
-        }
-
         // Be compatible with the various hints for image data and image path
         // 'image-data' and 'image-path' are the latest name of these hints, introduced in 1.2