diff --git a/src/proxy.ts b/src/proxy.ts
index 1a2fefcd..7b455170 100644
--- a/src/proxy.ts
+++ b/src/proxy.ts
@@ -40,17 +40,14 @@ export const proxy = async (req: import("next/server").NextRequest) => {
 
 	const response = NextResponse.next({ request: { headers } });
 
-	if (token) {
-		response.headers.set(
-			"Cache-Control",
-			"private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate",
-		);
-	} else {
-		response.headers.set(
-			"Cache-Control",
-			"public, max-age=60, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=300",
-		);
-	}
+	// HTML is never cached (browser/CDN/edge) so that after a deploy the page
+	// always references the current build's chunks. Static assets are
+	// content-hashed + immutable and can be cached aggressively; a stale HTML
+	// document would reference chunk URLs that no longer exist after a rebuild.
+	response.headers.set(
+		"Cache-Control",
+		"private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate",
+	);
 
 	for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(SECURITY_HEADERS)) {
 		response.headers.set(key, value);