diff --git a/frontend-new/src/composables/useApi.ts b/frontend-new/src/composables/useApi.ts
index 2debd28fb..6b083a534 100644
--- a/frontend-new/src/composables/useApi.ts
+++ b/frontend-new/src/composables/useApi.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ function request<T>(url: string, method: AxiosRequestConfig["method"], data: obj
           if (retry) {
             // we failed on a retry, let's invalidate
             authLog("failed retry -> invalidate");
-            return useAuth.invalidate(!import.meta.env.SSR);
+            await useAuth.invalidate();
+            return reject(error);
           }
           // do we have a refresh token we could use?
           const result = await useAuth.refreshToken();
@@ -68,13 +69,14 @@ function request<T>(url: string, method: AxiosRequestConfig["method"], data: obj
             authLog("Retrying request...");
             try {
               const response = await request<T>(url, method, data, headers, true);
-              resolve(response);
+              return resolve(response);
             } catch (e) {
-              reject(e);
+              return reject(e);
             }
           } else {
             authLog("Not retrying since refresh failed");
-            return useAuth.invalidate(!import.meta.env.SSR);
+            await useAuth.invalidate();
+            return reject(error);
           }
         }
         reject(error);
diff --git a/frontend-new/src/composables/useAuth.ts b/frontend-new/src/composables/useAuth.ts
index fde0ce192..9a1488b43 100644
--- a/frontend-new/src/composables/useAuth.ts
+++ b/frontend-new/src/composables/useAuth.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class Auth {
     return this.refreshPromise;
   }
 
-  async invalidate(shouldRedirect = true) {
+  async invalidate() {
     useAuthStore(this.usePiniaIfPresent()).$patch({
       user: null,
       token: null,
@@ -59,17 +59,12 @@ class Auth {
       useCookies().remove("HangarAuth", { path: "/" });
       authLog("Invalidated auth cookies");
     }
-    if (shouldRedirect) {
-      useContext().redirect("/logged-out");
-    }
   }
 
   async updateUser(): Promise<void> {
     const user = await useInternalApi<HangarUser>("users/@me").catch(async (err) => {
-      const { trace, ...data } = err.response.data;
-      console.log(data);
-      console.log("LOGGING OUT ON updateUser");
-      return this.invalidate(!import.meta.env.SSR);
+      authLog("no user");
+      return this.invalidate();
     });
     if (user) {
       authLog("patching " + user.name);