diff --git a/browser/modules/DirectoryLinksProvider.jsm b/browser/modules/DirectoryLinksProvider.jsm
index 0998e5695d1..b955bb0d29a 100644
--- a/browser/modules/DirectoryLinksProvider.jsm
+++ b/browser/modules/DirectoryLinksProvider.jsm
@@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ const MIN_VISIBLE_HISTORY_TILES = 8;
 // The max number of visible (not blocked) history tiles to test for inadjacency
 const MAX_VISIBLE_HISTORY_TILES = 15;
 
-// Divide frecency by this amount for pings
-const PING_SCORE_DIVISOR = 10000;
-
 // Allowed ping actions remotely stored as columns: case-insensitive [a-z0-9_]
 const PING_ACTIONS = ["block", "click", "pin", "sponsored", "sponsored_link", "unpin", "view"];
 
@@ -566,50 +563,13 @@ var DirectoryLinksProvider = {
     }
     catch (ex) {}
 
-    // Only send pings when enhancing tiles with an endpoint and valid action
+    // Bug 1240245 - We no longer send pings, but frequency capping and fetching
+    // tests depend on the following actions, so references to PING remain.
     let invalidAction = PING_ACTIONS.indexOf(action) == -1;
     if (!newtabEnhanced || pingEndPoint == "" || invalidAction) {
       return Promise.resolve();
     }
 
-    let actionIndex;
-    let data = {
-      locale: this.locale,
-      tiles: sites.reduce((tiles, site, pos) => {
-        // Only add data for non-empty tiles
-        if (site) {
-          // Remember which tiles data triggered the action
-          let {link} = site;
-          let tilesIndex = tiles.length;
-          if (triggeringSiteIndex == pos) {
-            actionIndex = tilesIndex;
-          }
-
-          // Make the payload in a way so keys can be excluded when stringified
-          let id = link.directoryId;
-          tiles.push({
-            id: id || site.enhancedId,
-            pin: site.isPinned() ? 1 : undefined,
-            pos: pos != tilesIndex ? pos : undefined,
-            past_impressions: pos == triggeringSiteIndex ? pastImpressions : undefined,
-            score: Math.round(link.frecency / PING_SCORE_DIVISOR) || undefined,
-            url: site.enhancedId && "",
-          });
-        }
-        return tiles;
-      }, []),
-    };
-
-    // Provide a direct index to the tile triggering the action
-    if (actionIndex !== undefined) {
-      data[action] = actionIndex;
-    }
-
-    // Package the data to be sent with the ping
-    let ping = this._newXHR();
-    ping.open("POST", pingEndPoint + (action == "view" ? "view" : "click"));
-    ping.send(JSON.stringify(data));
-
     return Task.spawn(function* () {
       // since we updated views/clicks we need write _frequencyCaps to disk
       yield this._writeFrequencyCapFile();
diff --git a/browser/modules/test/xpcshell/test_DirectoryLinksProvider.js b/browser/modules/test/xpcshell/test_DirectoryLinksProvider.js
index 803cf10e607..f0d64d419a6 100644
--- a/browser/modules/test/xpcshell/test_DirectoryLinksProvider.js
+++ b/browser/modules/test/xpcshell/test_DirectoryLinksProvider.js
@@ -716,113 +716,6 @@ add_task(function* test_frequencyCappedSites_click() {
   Services.prefs.setCharPref(kPingUrlPref, kPingUrl);
 });
 
-add_task(function* test_reportSitesAction() {
-  yield DirectoryLinksProvider.init();
-  let deferred, expectedPath, expectedPost;
-  let done = false;
-  server.registerPrefixHandler(kPingPath, (aRequest, aResponse) => {
-    if (done) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    do_check_eq(aRequest.path, expectedPath);
-
-    let bodyStream = new BinaryInputStream(aRequest.bodyInputStream);
-    let bodyObject = JSON.parse(NetUtil.readInputStreamToString(bodyStream, bodyStream.available()));
-    isIdentical(bodyObject, expectedPost);
-
-    deferred.resolve();
-  });
-
-  function sendPingAndTest(path, action, index) {
-    deferred = Promise.defer();
-    expectedPath = kPingPath + path;
-    DirectoryLinksProvider.reportSitesAction(sites, action, index);
-    return deferred.promise;
-  }
-
-  // Start with a single pinned link at position 3
-  let sites = [,,{
-    isPinned: _ => true,
-    link: {
-      directoryId: 1,
-      frecency: 30000,
-      url: "http://directory1/",
-    },
-  }];
-
-  // Make sure we get the click ping for the directory link with fields we want
-  // and unwanted fields removed by stringify/parse
-  expectedPost = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({
-    click: 0,
-    locale: "en-US",
-    tiles: [{
-      id: 1,
-      pin: 1,
-      pos: 2,
-      score: 3,
-      url: undefined,
-    }],
-  }));
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "click", 2);
-
-  // Try a pin click ping
-  delete expectedPost.click;
-  expectedPost.pin = 0;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "pin", 2);
-
-  // Try a block click ping
-  delete expectedPost.pin;
-  expectedPost.block = 0;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "block", 2);
-
-  // A view ping has no actions
-  delete expectedPost.block;
-  expectedPost.view = 0;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-
-  // Remove the identifier that makes it a directory link so just plain history
-  delete sites[2].link.directoryId;
-  delete expectedPost.tiles[0].id;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-
-  // Add directory link at position 0
-  sites[0] = {
-    isPinned: _ => false,
-    link: {
-      directoryId: 1234,
-      frecency: 1000,
-      url: "http://directory/",
-    }
-  };
-  expectedPost.tiles.unshift(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({
-    id: 1234,
-    pin: undefined,
-    pos: undefined,
-    score: undefined,
-    url: undefined,
-  })));
-  expectedPost.view = 1;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-
-  // Make the history tile enhanced so it reports both id and url
-  sites[2].enhancedId = "id from enhanced";
-  expectedPost.tiles[1].id = "id from enhanced";
-  expectedPost.tiles[1].url = "";
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-
-  // Click the 0th site / 0th tile
-  delete expectedPost.view;
-  expectedPost.click = 0;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "click", 0);
-
-  // Click the 2th site / 1th tile
-  expectedPost.click = 1;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "click", 2);
-
-  done = true;
-});
-
 add_task(function* test_fetchAndCacheLinks_local() {
   yield DirectoryLinksProvider.init();
   yield cleanJsonFile();
@@ -1901,110 +1794,6 @@ add_task(function* test_inadjecentSites() {
   yield promiseCleanDirectoryLinksProvider();
 });
 
-add_task(function* test_reportPastImpressions() {
-  let origIsTopPlacesSite = NewTabUtils.isTopPlacesSite;
-  NewTabUtils.isTopPlacesSite = () => true;
-  let origCurrentTopSiteCount = DirectoryLinksProvider._getCurrentTopSiteCount;
-  DirectoryLinksProvider._getCurrentTopSiteCount = () => 8;
-
-  let testUrl = "http://frequency.capped/link";
-  let targets = ["top.site.com"];
-  let data = {
-    suggested: [{
-      type: "affiliate",
-      frecent_sites: targets,
-      url: testUrl,
-      adgroup_name: "Test"
-    }]
-  };
-  let dataURI = "data:application/json," + JSON.stringify(data);
-  yield promiseSetupDirectoryLinksProvider({linksURL: dataURI});
-
-  // make DirectoryLinksProvider load json
-  let loadPromise = Promise.defer();
-  DirectoryLinksProvider.getLinks(_ => {loadPromise.resolve();});
-  yield loadPromise.promise;
-
-  // setup ping handler
-  let deferred, expectedPath, expectedAction, expectedImpressions;
-  let done = false;
-  server.registerPrefixHandler(kPingPath, (aRequest, aResponse) => {
-    if (done) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    do_check_eq(aRequest.path, expectedPath);
-
-    let bodyStream = new BinaryInputStream(aRequest.bodyInputStream);
-    let bodyObject = JSON.parse(NetUtil.readInputStreamToString(bodyStream, bodyStream.available()));
-    let expectedActionIndex = bodyObject[expectedAction];
-    if (bodyObject.unpin) {
-      // unpin should not report past_impressions
-      do_check_false(bodyObject.tiles[expectedActionIndex].hasOwnProperty("past_impressions"));
-    }
-    else if (expectedImpressions) {
-      do_check_eq(bodyObject.tiles[expectedActionIndex].past_impressions.total, expectedImpressions);
-      do_check_eq(bodyObject.tiles[expectedActionIndex].past_impressions.daily, expectedImpressions);
-    }
-    else {
-      do_check_eq(expectedPath, "/ping/view");
-      do_check_false(bodyObject.tiles[expectedActionIndex].hasOwnProperty("past_impressions"));
-    }
-
-    deferred.resolve();
-  });
-
-  // setup ping sender
-  function sendPingAndTest(path, action, index) {
-    deferred = Promise.defer();
-    expectedPath = kPingPath + path;
-    expectedAction = action;
-    DirectoryLinksProvider.reportSitesAction(sites, action, index);
-    return deferred.promise;
-  }
-
-  // Start with a view ping first
-  let site = {
-    isPinned: _ => false,
-    link: {
-      directoryId: 1,
-      frecency: 30000,
-      frecent_sites: targets,
-      targetedSite: targets[0],
-      url: testUrl
-    }
-  };
-  let sites = [,
-    {
-      isPinned: _ => false,
-      link: {type: "history", url: "https://foo.com"}
-    },
-    site
-  ];
-
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-  yield sendPingAndTest("view", "view", 2);
-
-  expectedImpressions = DirectoryLinksProvider._frequencyCaps[testUrl].totalViews;
-  do_check_eq(expectedImpressions, 3);
-
-  // now report pin, unpin, block and click
-  sites.isPinned = _ => true;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "pin", 2);
-  sites.isPinned = _ => false;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "unpin", 2);
-  sites.isPinned = _ => false;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "click", 2);
-  sites.isPinned = _ => false;
-  yield sendPingAndTest("click", "block", 2);
-
-  // Cleanup.
-  done = true;
-  NewTabUtils.isTopPlacesSite = origIsTopPlacesSite;
-  DirectoryLinksProvider._getCurrentTopSiteCount = origCurrentTopSiteCount;
-});
-
 add_task(function* test_blockSuggestedTiles() {
   // Initial setup
   let suggestedTile = suggestedTile1;