diff --git a/cmd/tailscale/depaware-minlinux.txt b/cmd/tailscale/depaware-minlinux.txt
index 74824b6d1..4fd27ed21 100644
--- a/cmd/tailscale/depaware-minlinux.txt
+++ b/cmd/tailscale/depaware-minlinux.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/dep
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/netlink                                  from github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink+
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/netlink/nlenc                            from github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink+
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/socket                                   from github.com/mdlayher/netlink
-     💣 github.com/mitchellh/go-ps                                   from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli+
+     💣 github.com/mitchellh/go-ps                                   from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli
         github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3                                from github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli+
         github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli                          from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli+
         github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/internal                       from github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3
diff --git a/cmd/tailscaled/depaware-minlinux.txt b/cmd/tailscaled/depaware-minlinux.txt
index 27fd99b9d..79eeadab0 100644
--- a/cmd/tailscaled/depaware-minlinux.txt
+++ b/cmd/tailscaled/depaware-minlinux.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/de
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/netlink                                  from github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink+
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/netlink/nlenc                            from github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink+
    L 💣 github.com/mdlayher/socket                                   from github.com/mdlayher/netlink+
-     💣 github.com/mitchellh/go-ps                                   from tailscale.com/safesocket
         github.com/tailscale/hujson                                  from tailscale.com/ipn/conffile
    L 💣 github.com/tailscale/netlink                                 from tailscale.com/util/linuxfw+
    L 💣 github.com/tailscale/netlink/nl                              from github.com/tailscale/netlink
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/de
         html                                                         from tailscale.com/ipn/ipnstate+
         io                                                           from bufio+
         io/fs                                                        from crypto/x509+
-   L    io/ioutil                                                    from github.com/mitchellh/go-ps+
+   L    io/ioutil                                                    from github.com/tailscale/netlink
         iter                                                         from github.com/go-json-experiment/json/jsontext+
         log                                                          from expvar+
         log/internal                                                 from log
diff --git a/safesocket/safesocket_ps.go b/safesocket/safesocket_ps.go
index 18197846d..561e7ef44 100644
--- a/safesocket/safesocket_ps.go
+++ b/safesocket/safesocket_ps.go
@@ -5,30 +5,5 @@
 
 package safesocket
 
-import (
-	"strings"
-
-	ps "github.com/mitchellh/go-ps"
-)
-
 func init() {
-	tailscaledProcExists = func() bool {
-		procs, err := ps.Processes()
-		if err != nil {
-			return false
-		}
-		for _, proc := range procs {
-			name := proc.Executable()
-			const tailscaled = "tailscaled"
-			if len(name) < len(tailscaled) {
-				continue
-			}
-			// Do case insensitive comparison for Windows,
-			// notably, and ignore any ".exe" suffix.
-			if strings.EqualFold(name[:len(tailscaled)], tailscaled) {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-		return false
-	}
 }