diff --git a/coil-base/api/coil-base.api b/coil-base/api/coil-base.api
index a43a5e704e..9fc971dca9 100644
--- a/coil-base/api/coil-base.api
+++ b/coil-base/api/coil-base.api
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ public abstract interface class coil/disk/DiskCache {
 }
 
 public final class coil/disk/DiskCache$Builder {
-	public fun <init> (Landroid/content/Context;)V
+	public fun <init> ()V
 	public final fun build ()Lcoil/disk/DiskCache;
 	public final fun cleanupDispatcher (Lkotlinx/coroutines/CoroutineDispatcher;)Lcoil/disk/DiskCache$Builder;
 	public final fun directory (Ljava/io/File;)Lcoil/disk/DiskCache$Builder;
diff --git a/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/disk/DiskCache.kt b/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/disk/DiskCache.kt
index 37a0df9437..768a278b0c 100644
--- a/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/disk/DiskCache.kt
+++ b/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/disk/DiskCache.kt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 package coil.disk
 
-import android.content.Context
 import android.os.StatFs
 import androidx.annotation.FloatRange
 import coil.annotation.ExperimentalCoilApi
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ interface DiskCache {
         fun abort()
     }
 
-    class Builder(private val context: Context) {
+    class Builder {
 
         private var directory: File? = null
         private var maxSizePercent = 0.02 // 2%
diff --git a/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/util/Utils.kt b/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/util/Utils.kt
index a057c6b46c..8211e8c910 100644
--- a/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/util/Utils.kt
+++ b/coil-base/src/main/java/coil/util/Utils.kt
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ internal object SingletonDiskCache {
     fun get(context: Context): DiskCache {
         return instance ?: run {
             // Create the singleton disk cache instance.
-            DiskCache.Builder(context)
+            DiskCache.Builder()
                 .directory(context.safeCacheDir.resolve(FOLDER_NAME))
                 .build()
                 .also { instance = it }
diff --git a/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/disk/DiskCacheTest.kt b/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/disk/DiskCacheTest.kt
index c03c1983af..e066ae4018 100644
--- a/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/disk/DiskCacheTest.kt
+++ b/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/disk/DiskCacheTest.kt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package coil.disk
 
-import android.content.Context
-import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider
 import okio.buffer
 import okio.sink
 import okio.source
@@ -19,13 +17,11 @@ import kotlin.test.assertTrue
 @RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
 class DiskCacheTest {
 
-    private lateinit var context: Context
     private lateinit var diskCache: DiskCache
 
     @Before
     fun before() {
-        context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext()
-        diskCache = DiskCache.Builder(context).directory(File("build/cache")).build()
+        diskCache = DiskCache.Builder().directory(File("build/cache")).build()
     }
 
     @After
diff --git a/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/fetch/HttpUriFetcherTest.kt b/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/fetch/HttpUriFetcherTest.kt
index 6c305df132..c8ff96938e 100644
--- a/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/fetch/HttpUriFetcherTest.kt
+++ b/coil-base/src/test/java/coil/fetch/HttpUriFetcherTest.kt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class HttpUriFetcherTest {
     fun before() {
         context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext()
         server = createMockWebServer()
-        diskCache = DiskCache.Builder(context)
+        diskCache = DiskCache.Builder()
             .directory(File("build/cache"))
             .maxSizeBytes(10L * 1024 * 1024) // 10MB
             .build()
diff --git a/coil-sample-common/src/main/java/coil/sample/Application.kt b/coil-sample-common/src/main/java/coil/sample/Application.kt
index b8f30edc4f..a969921da6 100644
--- a/coil-sample-common/src/main/java/coil/sample/Application.kt
+++ b/coil-sample-common/src/main/java/coil/sample/Application.kt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class Application : Application(), ImageLoaderFactory {
                     .build()
             }
             .diskCache {
-                DiskCache.Builder(this)
+                DiskCache.Builder()
                     .directory(filesDir.resolve("image_cache"))
                     .maxSizeBytes(512L * 1024 * 1024) // 512MB
                     .build()