diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
index fcdffc520967..ebd53cb17ea5 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ in
       nsd = 126;
       gitolite = 127;
       znc = 128;
-      polipo = 129;
+      # polipo = 129; removed 2025-05-18
       mopidy = 130;
       #docker = 131; # unused
       gdm = 132;
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ in
       nsd = 126;
       gitolite = 127;
       znc = 128;
-      polipo = 129;
+      # polipo = 129; removed 2025-05-18
       mopidy = 130;
       docker = 131;
       gdm = 132;
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 283d022293c5..ddf258c61a14 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1268,7 +1268,6 @@
   ./services/networking/picosnitch.nix
   ./services/networking/pixiecore.nix
   ./services/networking/pleroma.nix
-  ./services/networking/polipo.nix
   ./services/networking/powerdns.nix
   ./services/networking/pppd.nix
   ./services/networking/pptpd.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/rename.nix b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
index 94cf7428e09d..01d439478a6c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/rename.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ in
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "pantheon" "files" ] ''
       This module was removed, please add pkgs.pantheon.elementary-files to environment.systemPackages directly.
     '')
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "polipo" ] ''
+      The polipo project is unmaintained and archived upstream.
+    '')
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "prey" ] ''
       prey-bash-client is deprecated upstream
     '')
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/polipo.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/polipo.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 67f83358312e..000000000000
--- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/polipo.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-{
-  config,
-  lib,
-  pkgs,
-  ...
-}:
-
-with lib;
-
-let
-
-  cfg = config.services.polipo;
-
-  polipoConfig = pkgs.writeText "polipo.conf" ''
-    proxyAddress = ${cfg.proxyAddress}
-    proxyPort = ${toString cfg.proxyPort}
-    allowedClients = ${concatStringsSep ", " cfg.allowedClients}
-    ${optionalString (cfg.parentProxy != "") "parentProxy = ${cfg.parentProxy}"}
-    ${optionalString (cfg.socksParentProxy != "") "socksParentProxy = ${cfg.socksParentProxy}"}
-    ${config.services.polipo.extraConfig}
-  '';
-
-in
-
-{
-
-  options = {
-
-    services.polipo = {
-
-      enable = mkEnableOption "polipo caching web proxy";
-
-      proxyAddress = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "127.0.0.1";
-        description = "IP address on which Polipo will listen.";
-      };
-
-      proxyPort = mkOption {
-        type = types.port;
-        default = 8123;
-        description = "TCP port on which Polipo will listen.";
-      };
-
-      allowedClients = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [
-          "127.0.0.1"
-          "::1"
-        ];
-        example = [
-          "127.0.0.1"
-          "::1"
-          "134.157.168.0/24"
-          "2001:660:116::/48"
-        ];
-        description = ''
-          List of IP addresses or network addresses that may connect to Polipo.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      parentProxy = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "";
-        example = "localhost:8124";
-        description = ''
-          Hostname and port number of an HTTP parent proxy;
-          it should have the form ‘host:port’.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      socksParentProxy = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "";
-        example = "localhost:9050";
-        description = ''
-          Hostname and port number of an SOCKS parent proxy;
-          it should have the form ‘host:port’.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      extraConfig = mkOption {
-        type = types.lines;
-        default = "";
-        description = ''
-          Polio configuration. Contents will be added
-          verbatim to the configuration file.
-        '';
-      };
-
-    };
-
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-
-    users.users.polipo = {
-      uid = config.ids.uids.polipo;
-      description = "Polipo caching proxy user";
-      home = "/var/cache/polipo";
-      createHome = true;
-    };
-
-    users.groups.polipo = {
-      gid = config.ids.gids.polipo;
-      members = [ "polipo" ];
-    };
-
-    systemd.services.polipo = {
-      description = "caching web proxy";
-      after = [
-        "network.target"
-        "nss-lookup.target"
-      ];
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-      serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = "${pkgs.polipo}/bin/polipo -c ${polipoConfig}";
-        User = "polipo";
-      };
-    };
-
-  };
-
-}