diff --git a/base/src/META-INF/blaze-base.xml b/base/src/META-INF/blaze-base.xml
index 1d815d775d3..7aaa7e05500 100644
--- a/base/src/META-INF/blaze-base.xml
+++ b/base/src/META-INF/blaze-base.xml
@@ -527,7 +527,6 @@
     <BlazeTestEventsHandler implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.run.smrunner.BlazeGenericTestEventsHandler" order="last"/>
     <ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.DirectorySection$DirectoriesProjectViewDefaultValueProvider"/>
     <ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.AutomaticallyDeriveTargetsSection$DefaultValueProvider"/>
-    <ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.SyncManualTargetsSection$DefaultValueProvider"/>
     <ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.TargetSection$TargetsProjectViewDefaultValueProvider"/>
     <ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.AdditionalLanguagesSection$AdditionalLanguagesDefaultValueProvider"/>
     <PrefetchFileSource implementation="com.google.idea.blaze.base.prefetch.ProtoPrefetchFileSource"/>
diff --git a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/SyncManualTargetsSection.java b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/SyncManualTargetsSection.java
index e01fb14c6fb..6fe11f7b6bf 100644
--- a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/SyncManualTargetsSection.java
+++ b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/SyncManualTargetsSection.java
@@ -69,29 +69,4 @@ public String quickDocs() {
       return "If set to true, project targets will be derived from the directories.";
     }
   }
-
-  static class DefaultValueProvider implements ProjectViewDefaultValueProvider {
-    @Override
-    public ProjectView addProjectViewDefaultValue(
-        BuildSystemName buildSystemName,
-        ProjectViewSet projectViewSet,
-        ProjectView topLevelProjectView) {
-      if (!topLevelProjectView.getSectionsOfType(KEY).isEmpty()) {
-        return topLevelProjectView;
-      }
-      return ProjectView.builder(topLevelProjectView)
-          .add(
-              TextBlockSection.of(
-                  TextBlock.of(
-                      "# Automatically targets tagged as manual to be synced")))
-          .add(ScalarSection.builder(KEY).set(false))
-          .add(TextBlockSection.of(TextBlock.newLine()))
-          .build();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public SectionKey<?, ?> getSectionKey() {
-      return KEY;
-    }
-  }
 }