diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
index 98bd56b66a57..6a147acda69b 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
@@ -61,24 +61,6 @@ export function constructWebpackConfigFunction(
     const origEntryProperty = newConfig.entry;
     newConfig.entry = async () => addSentryToEntryProperty(origEntryProperty, buildContext);
 
-    // In webpack 5, you can get webpack to replace any module you'd like with an empty object, just by setting its
-    // `resolve.alias` value to `false`. Not much of our code is neatly separated into "things node needs" and "things
-    // the browser needs," but where it is, we can save ~1.6 kb in eventual bundle size by excluding code we know we
-    // don't need. (Normally this would only matter for the client side, but because vercel turns backend code into
-    // serverless functions, it's worthwhile to do it for both.)
-    if (buildContext.webpack.version.startsWith('5')) {
-      const excludedTracingDir = buildContext.isServer ? 'browser' : 'integrations/node';
-      newConfig.resolve = {
-        ...newConfig.resolve,
-        alias: {
-          ...newConfig.resolve?.alias,
-          [path.resolve(buildContext.dir, `./node_modules/@sentry/tracing/esm/${excludedTracingDir}`)]: false,
-          // TODO It's not clear if it will ever pull from `dist` (in testing it never does), so we may not need this.
-          [path.resolve(buildContext.dir, `./node_modules/@sentry/tracing/dist/${excludedTracingDir}`)]: false,
-        },
-      };
-    }
-
     // Enable the Sentry plugin (which uploads source maps to Sentry when not in dev) by default
     const enableWebpackPlugin = buildContext.isServer
       ? !userNextConfig.sentry?.disableServerWebpackPlugin