diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 378e8e4..ba98f15 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -122,18 +122,16 @@ Controlling a browser with playwright
 =====================================
 
 As an alternative to Selenium (above) nightwatch also supports playwright;
-mostly by pulling in the ``pytest-playwright`` plugin, so you can use their fixtures, with some convenience features:
+mostly by pulling in the ``pytest-playwright`` plugin.
 
-- Configure a base url, and then only use paths:
-  ``page.goto('/foo')``
+Unfortunately, the playwright API is too unfriendly to allow nightwatch to set the base url automatically,
+so you'll need to do that yourself, for example by overriding the ``base_url`` fixture::
 
 Example usage::
 
-    @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
-    def nightwatch_config():
-        return dict(selenium=dict(
-            baseurl='https://example.com',
-        ))
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+    def base_url():
+        return 'https://example.com'
 
     def test_playwright_works(page):
         page.goto('/something')
diff --git a/src/zeit/nightwatch/pytest.py b/src/zeit/nightwatch/pytest.py
index bc09eb6..189babd 100644
--- a/src/zeit/nightwatch/pytest.py
+++ b/src/zeit/nightwatch/pytest.py
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ def selenium(selenium_session):
     selenium_session.delete_all_cookies()
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
-def base_url(nightwatch_config):  # Overrides pytest-base-url
-    return nightwatch_config.get("selenium", {}).get("baseurl")
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
 def zeitde(nightwatch_environment):
     if nightwatch_environment == "production":
diff --git a/tests/test_basics.py b/tests/test_basics.py
index e742129..59c2fb0 100644
--- a/tests/test_basics.py
+++ b/tests/test_basics.py
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ def nightwatch_config():
     )
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def base_url(nightwatch_config):
+    return nightwatch_config.get("selenium", {}).get("baseurl")
+
+
 def test_get(http):
     r = http.get("/get")
     assert r.status_code == 200