diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 3217021..b74b13d 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@
 #  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
-# This will also download any necessary third-party files.  Note that all
-# downloads are proxied over Tor (using `torify').
+# This will also download any necessary third-party files.
 ##
 
 set -euo pipefail
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ get-fonts()
     dest="$fontdir/$font"
 
     test ! -f "$dest" || continue
-    torify wget "$src" -O "$dest"
+    wget "$src" -O "$dest"
   done
 
   # Verify that we haven't been served bad files.  This should only happen
diff --git a/images/tp/gen-makefile b/images/tp/gen-makefile
index 0b99526..c107104 100755
--- a/images/tp/gen-makefile
+++ b/images/tp/gen-makefile
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ declare -r remote_file=remote-list
 cat <<EOF
 ### GENERATED BY gen-makefile ###
 
-TORIFY="${TORIFY-torify}"
-
 images := $( cut -d' ' -f1 "$remote_file" | tr '\n' ' '  )
 
 .PHONY: all check clean
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ while read out url convert; do
   dest="$out"
 
   echo "$dest":
-  printf "\t\$(TORIFY) wget -O %q %q\n" "$dest" "$url"
+  printf "\t\wget -O %q %q\n" "$dest" "$url"
 
   test -n "$convert" || continue