diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 767acfe..fd629cd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -158,4 +158,4 @@ cython_debug/
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 .idea/
-
+settings.json
diff --git a/example_client/settings.json b/example_client/settings.json
deleted file mode 100644
index baec663..0000000
--- a/example_client/settings.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "base_url": "https://listmonk.talkpython.fm",
-  "username": "mkennedy",
-  "password": "",
-
-  "test_list_id": 5,
-  "test_list info" : "Python bytes just over 500 for now, uses minor paging."
-}
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