diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3bf9343..dd34dbf 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/tommath"]
 	path = third_party/tommath
 	url = https://git.did.science/TeaSpeak/libraries/tommath.git
-[submodule "third_party/protobuf"]
-	path = third_party/protobuf
-	url = https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
 [submodule "third_party/yaml-cpp"]
 	path = third_party/yaml-cpp
 	url = https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git
@@ -66,7 +63,7 @@
 [submodule "third_party/spdlog"]
 	path = third_party/spdlog
 	url = https://git.did.science/TeaSpeak/libraries/spdlog.git
-[submodule "third_party\\abseil-cpp"]
+[submodule "third_party/abseil-cpp"]
 	path = third_party\\abseil-cpp
 	url = https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git
 [submodule "third_party/webrtc-audio-processing"]
diff --git a/third_party/protobuf b/third_party/protobuf
deleted file mode 160000
index 59b3d97..0000000
--- a/third_party/protobuf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 59b3d97f6d7e3ff67bc5d89f030017c60b483549