diff --git a/components/style/invalidation/element/state_and_attributes.rs b/components/style/invalidation/element/state_and_attributes.rs
index 43f7993ad70..9758ae244d9 100644
--- a/components/style/invalidation/element/state_and_attributes.rs
+++ b/components/style/invalidation/element/state_and_attributes.rs
@@ -225,20 +225,6 @@ where
             return false;
         }
 
-        // If we the visited state changed, we force a restyle here. Matching
-        // doesn't depend on the actual visited state at all, so we can't look
-        // at matching results to decide what to do for this case.
-        //
-        // TODO(emilio): This piece of code should be removed when
-        // layout.css.always-repaint-on-unvisited is true, since we cannot get
-        // into this situation in that case.
-        if state_changes.contains(ElementState::VISITED_OR_UNVISITED) {
-            trace!(" > visitedness change, force subtree restyle");
-            // We can't just return here because there may also be attribute
-            // changes as well that imply additional hints for siblings.
-            self.data.hint.insert(RestyleHint::restyle_subtree());
-        }
-
         let mut classes_removed = SmallVec::<[Atom; 8]>::new();
         let mut classes_added = SmallVec::<[Atom; 8]>::new();
         if snapshot.class_changed() {