diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 304b1adb..301172b8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "objc",
  "rust-ini",
  "web-sys",
- "winreg 0.10.1",
+ "winreg",
  "zbus",
  "zvariant",
 ]
@@ -1014,15 +1014,6 @@ version = "0.3.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a357d28ed41a50f9c765dbfe56cbc04a64e53e5fc58ba79fbc34c10ef3df831f"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "encoding_rs"
-version = "0.8.33"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7268b386296a025e474d5140678f75d6de9493ae55a5d709eeb9dd08149945e1"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "entities"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -1540,25 +1531,6 @@ version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "eec1c01eb1de97451ee0d60de7d81cf1e72aabefb021616027f3d1c3ec1c723c"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "h2"
-version = "0.3.25"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4fbd2820c5e49886948654ab546d0688ff24530286bdcf8fca3cefb16d4618eb"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "fnv",
- "futures-core",
- "futures-sink",
- "futures-util",
- "http 0.2.12",
- "indexmap 2.2.5",
- "slab",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
- "tracing",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "h2"
 version = "0.4.3"
@@ -1570,7 +1542,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-sink",
  "futures-util",
- "http 1.1.0",
+ "http",
  "indexmap 2.2.5",
  "slab",
  "tokio",
@@ -1684,17 +1656,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 1.0.109",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "http"
-version = "0.2.12"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "601cbb57e577e2f5ef5be8e7b83f0f63994f25aa94d673e54a92d5c516d101f1"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "fnv",
- "itoa",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -1706,17 +1667,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "itoa",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "http-body"
-version = "0.4.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7ceab25649e9960c0311ea418d17bee82c0dcec1bd053b5f9a66e265a693bed2"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "http 0.2.12",
- "pin-project-lite",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "http-body"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -1724,7 +1674,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1cac85db508abc24a2e48553ba12a996e87244a0395ce011e62b37158745d643"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "http 1.1.0",
+ "http",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1735,8 +1685,8 @@ checksum = "0475f8b2ac86659c21b64320d5d653f9efe42acd2a4e560073ec61a155a34f1d"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
- "http 1.1.0",
- "http-body 1.0.0",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
@@ -1768,30 +1718,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "uuid",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "hyper"
-version = "0.14.28"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bf96e135eb83a2a8ddf766e426a841d8ddd7449d5f00d34ea02b41d2f19eef80"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "futures-channel",
- "futures-core",
- "futures-util",
- "h2 0.3.25",
- "http 0.2.12",
- "http-body 0.4.6",
- "httparse",
- "httpdate",
- "itoa",
- "pin-project-lite",
- "socket2 0.5.6",
- "tokio",
- "tower-service",
- "tracing",
- "want",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -1801,9 +1727,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
- "h2 0.4.3",
- "http 1.1.0",
- "http-body 1.0.0",
+ "h2",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
  "httparse",
  "httpdate",
  "itoa",
@@ -1813,20 +1739,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "want",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "hyper-rustls"
-version = "0.24.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ec3efd23720e2049821a693cbc7e65ea87c72f1c58ff2f9522ff332b1491e590"
-dependencies = [
- "futures-util",
- "http 0.2.12",
- "hyper 0.14.28",
- "rustls",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-rustls",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-util"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -1835,9 +1747,9 @@ checksum = "ca38ef113da30126bbff9cd1705f9273e15d45498615d138b0c20279ac7a76aa"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-util",
- "http 1.1.0",
- "http-body 1.0.0",
- "hyper 1.2.0",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "hyper",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "socket2 0.5.6",
  "tokio",
@@ -1941,7 +1853,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "pollster",
  "pretty_assertions",
  "raw-window-handle",
- "reqwest",
  "resvg",
  "serde",
  "serde_yaml",
@@ -1955,6 +1866,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "two-face",
  "twox-hash",
+ "ureq",
  "wgpu",
  "winit",
  "wiremock",
@@ -2016,12 +1928,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ipnet"
-version = "2.9.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8f518f335dce6725a761382244631d86cf0ccb2863413590b31338feb467f9c3"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "is-docker"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -2427,12 +2333,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sketches-ddsketch",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "mime"
-version = "0.3.17"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6877bb514081ee2a7ff5ef9de3281f14a4dd4bceac4c09388074a6b5df8a139a"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "miniz_oxide"
 version = "0.7.2"
@@ -3323,49 +3223,6 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "216080ab382b992234dda86873c18d4c48358f5cfcb70fd693d7f6f2131b628b"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.11.26"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "78bf93c4af7a8bb7d879d51cebe797356ff10ae8516ace542b5182d9dcac10b2"
-dependencies = [
- "base64 0.21.7",
- "bytes",
- "encoding_rs",
- "futures-core",
- "futures-util",
- "h2 0.3.25",
- "http 0.2.12",
- "http-body 0.4.6",
- "hyper 0.14.28",
- "hyper-rustls",
- "ipnet",
- "js-sys",
- "log",
- "mime",
- "once_cell",
- "percent-encoding",
- "pin-project-lite",
- "rustls",
- "rustls-pemfile",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_urlencoded",
- "sync_wrapper",
- "system-configuration",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-rustls",
- "tokio-util",
- "tower-service",
- "url",
- "wasm-bindgen",
- "wasm-bindgen-futures",
- "wasm-streams",
- "web-sys",
- "webpki-roots",
- "winreg 0.50.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "resvg"
 version = "0.37.0"
@@ -3473,32 +3330,32 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls"
-version = "0.21.10"
+version = "0.22.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f9d5a6813c0759e4609cd494e8e725babae6a2ca7b62a5536a13daaec6fcb7ba"
+checksum = "99008d7ad0bbbea527ec27bddbc0e432c5b87d8175178cee68d2eec9c4a1813c"
 dependencies = [
  "log",
  "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "rustls-webpki",
- "sct",
+ "subtle",
+ "zeroize",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "rustls-pemfile"
-version = "1.0.4"
+name = "rustls-pki-types"
+version = "1.4.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1c74cae0a4cf6ccbbf5f359f08efdf8ee7e1dc532573bf0db71968cb56b1448c"
-dependencies = [
- "base64 0.21.7",
-]
+checksum = "ecd36cc4259e3e4514335c4a138c6b43171a8d61d8f5c9348f9fc7529416f247"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-webpki"
-version = "0.101.7"
+version = "0.102.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8b6275d1ee7a1cd780b64aca7726599a1dbc893b1e64144529e55c3c2f745765"
+checksum = "faaa0a62740bedb9b2ef5afa303da42764c012f743917351dc9a237ea1663610"
 dependencies = [
  "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "untrusted",
 ]
 
@@ -3568,16 +3425,6 @@ version = "1.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "94143f37725109f92c262ed2cf5e59bce7498c01bcc1502d7b9afe439a4e9f49"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "sct"
-version = "0.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "da046153aa2352493d6cb7da4b6e5c0c057d8a1d0a9aa8560baffdd945acd414"
-dependencies = [
- "ring",
- "untrusted",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
 version = "1.0.197"
@@ -3629,18 +3476,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "serde_urlencoded"
-version = "0.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d3491c14715ca2294c4d6a88f15e84739788c1d030eed8c110436aafdaa2f3fd"
-dependencies = [
- "form_urlencoded",
- "itoa",
- "ryu",
- "serde",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_yaml"
 version = "0.9.32"
@@ -3908,6 +3743,12 @@ version = "0.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5ee073c9e4cd00e28217186dbe12796d692868f432bf2e97ee73bed0c56dfa01"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "subtle"
+version = "2.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "81cdd64d312baedb58e21336b31bc043b77e01cc99033ce76ef539f78e965ebc"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "svg_fmt"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -3956,12 +3797,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "sync_wrapper"
-version = "0.1.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2047c6ded9c721764247e62cd3b03c09ffc529b2ba5b10ec482ae507a4a70160"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "syntect"
 version = "5.2.0"
@@ -3995,27 +3830,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "system-configuration"
-version = "0.5.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ba3a3adc5c275d719af8cb4272ea1c4a6d668a777f37e115f6d11ddbc1c8e0e7"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 1.3.2",
- "core-foundation",
- "system-configuration-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "system-configuration-sys"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a75fb188eb626b924683e3b95e3a48e63551fcfb51949de2f06a9d91dbee93c9"
-dependencies = [
- "core-foundation-sys",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "taffy"
 version = "0.3.18"
@@ -4200,16 +4014,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.52",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-rustls"
-version = "0.24.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c28327cf380ac148141087fbfb9de9d7bd4e84ab5d2c28fbc911d753de8a7081"
-dependencies = [
- "rustls",
- "tokio",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
 version = "0.7.10"
@@ -4269,12 +4073,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winnow 0.6.5",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tower-service"
-version = "0.3.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b6bc1c9ce2b5135ac7f93c72918fc37feb872bdc6a5533a8b85eb4b86bfdae52"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
 version = "0.1.40"
@@ -4501,6 +4299,23 @@ version = "0.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8ecb6da28b8a351d773b68d5825ac39017e680750f980f3a1a85cd8dd28a47c1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ureq"
+version = "2.9.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "11f214ce18d8b2cbe84ed3aa6486ed3f5b285cf8d8fbdbce9f3f767a724adc35"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.21.7",
+ "flate2",
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "rustls",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "rustls-webpki",
+ "url",
+ "webpki-roots",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "url"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -4715,19 +4530,6 @@ version = "0.2.92"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "af190c94f2773fdb3729c55b007a722abb5384da03bc0986df4c289bf5567e96"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "wasm-streams"
-version = "0.4.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b65dc4c90b63b118468cf747d8bf3566c1913ef60be765b5730ead9e0a3ba129"
-dependencies = [
- "futures-util",
- "js-sys",
- "wasm-bindgen",
- "wasm-bindgen-futures",
- "web-sys",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "wayland-backend"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -4908,9 +4710,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki-roots"
-version = "0.25.4"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5f20c57d8d7db6d3b86154206ae5d8fba62dd39573114de97c2cb0578251f8e1"
+checksum = "b3de34ae270483955a94f4b21bdaaeb83d508bb84a01435f393818edb0012009"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "weezl"
@@ -5335,16 +5140,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "winreg"
-version = "0.50.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "524e57b2c537c0f9b1e69f1965311ec12182b4122e45035b1508cd24d2adadb1"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "wiremock"
 version = "0.6.0"
@@ -5356,9 +5151,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.21.7",
  "deadpool",
  "futures",
- "http 1.1.0",
+ "http",
  "http-body-util",
- "hyper 1.2.0",
+ "hyper",
  "hyper-util",
  "log",
  "once_cell",
@@ -5555,6 +5350,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.52",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zeroize"
+version = "1.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "525b4ec142c6b68a2d10f01f7bbf6755599ca3f81ea53b8431b7dd348f5fdb2d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zune-inflate"
 version = "0.2.54"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a31dc7bd..f226a7eb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ anyhow = "1.0.81"
 dirs = "5.0.1"
 serde = { version = "1.0.197", features = ["derive"] }
 toml = "0.8.11"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.26", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
 notify = "6.1.1"
 dark-light = "1.0.0"
 # We only decompress our own compressed data, so disable `safe-decode` and
@@ -77,6 +76,7 @@ anstyle = "1.0.6"
 metrics = "0.22.3"
 metrics-util = { version = "0.16.3", default-features = false, features = ["registry", "summary"] }
 parking_lot = "0.12.1"
+ureq = "2.9.6"
 
 [target.'cfg(inlyne_tcp_metrics)'.dependencies]
 metrics-exporter-tcp = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/src/image/mod.rs b/src/image/mod.rs
index 6c7d2a81..fafdbd12 100644
--- a/src/image/mod.rs
+++ b/src/image/mod.rs
@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::Instant;
-use std::{fs, io};
+use std::{
+    fs,
+    io::{self, Read},
+};
 
 use crate::debug_impls::{DebugBytesPrefix, DebugInline};
 use crate::interpreter::ImageCallback;
 use crate::metrics::{histogram, HistTag};
 use crate::positioner::DEFAULT_MARGIN;
-use crate::utils::{self, usize_in_mib, Align, Point, Size};
+use crate::utils::{usize_in_mib, Align, Point, Size};
 
 use anyhow::Context;
 use bytemuck::{Pod, Zeroable};
@@ -232,12 +235,8 @@ impl Image {
 
             let image_data = if let Ok(img_file) = fs::read(&src_path) {
                 img_file
-            } else if let Ok(bytes) = utils::client()
-                .get(&src)
-                .send()
-                .and_then(|resp| resp.bytes())
-            {
-                bytes.to_vec()
+            } else if let Ok(bytes) = http_get_image(&src) {
+                bytes
             } else {
                 tracing::warn!("Request for image from {} failed", src_path.display());
                 return;
@@ -382,6 +381,26 @@ impl Image {
     }
 }
 
+pub fn http_get_image(url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<u8>> {
+    const USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(
+        "inlyne ",
+        env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
+        " https://github.com/trimental/inlyne"
+    );
+
+    const LIMIT: usize = 20 * 1_024 * 1_024;
+
+    let resp = ureq::get(url).set("User-Agent", USER_AGENT).call()?;
+    let len = resp
+        .header("Content-Length")
+        .and_then(|len| len.parse::<usize>().ok());
+    let mut body = Vec::with_capacity(len.unwrap_or(0).clamp(0, LIMIT));
+    resp.into_reader()
+        .take(u64::try_from(LIMIT).unwrap())
+        .read_to_end(&mut body)?;
+    Ok(body)
+}
+
 #[repr(C)]
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Pod, Zeroable, Debug)]
 pub struct ImageVertex {
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index b18485fa..d5bf39d1 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ use comrak::adapters::SyntaxHighlighterAdapter;
 use comrak::plugins::syntect::{SyntectAdapter, SyntectAdapterBuilder};
 use comrak::{markdown_to_html_with_plugins, ComrakOptions};
 use indexmap::IndexMap;
-use reqwest::blocking::Client;
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use syntect::highlighting::{Theme as SyntectTheme, ThemeSet as SyntectThemeSet};
 use syntect::parsing::SyntaxSet;
@@ -55,15 +54,6 @@ fn root_filepath_to_vcs_dir(path: &Path) -> Option<PathBuf> {
     }
 }
 
-pub fn client() -> Client {
-    const USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(
-        "inlyne ",
-        env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
-        " https://github.com/trimental/inlyne"
-    );
-    Client::builder().user_agent(USER_AGENT).build().unwrap()
-}
-
 pub(crate) fn default<T: Default>() -> T {
     Default::default()
 }