diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
index 866a791d..1eb2e3ac 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetter.java
@@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ import java.time.Duration;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.time.InstantSource;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 
 import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.CacheControl;
@@ -24,6 +27,8 @@ import org.apache.hc.client5.http.SystemDefaultDnsResolver;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.ConnectionConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.RequestConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.TlsConfig;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity.DeflateInputStream;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity.InputStreamFactory;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
@@ -287,6 +292,10 @@ public class HttpGetter {
 		headers.add(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaders.PRAGMA, "No-cache"));
 		headers.add(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaders.CACHE_CONTROL, "no-cache"));
 
+		Map<String, InputStreamFactory> contentDecoderMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+		contentDecoderMap.put("gzip", GZIPInputStream::new);
+		contentDecoderMap.put("deflate", DeflateInputStream::new);
+
 		return HttpClientBuilder.create()
 				.useSystemProperties()
 				.disableAutomaticRetries()
@@ -296,6 +305,7 @@ public class HttpGetter {
 				.setConnectionManager(connectionManager)
 				.evictExpiredConnections()
 				.evictIdleConnections(TimeValue.of(idleConnectionsEvictionInterval))
+				.setContentDecoderRegistry(new LinkedHashMap<>(contentDecoderMap))
 				.build();
 	}
 
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 8cc14c91..0158125d 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ quarkus.http.port=8082
 quarkus.http.test-port=8085
 quarkus.http.enable-compression=true
 quarkus.http.enable-decompression=true
-quarkus.http.compressors=gzip,deflate,br
 
 # http cache
 quarkus.http.static-resources.max-age=P365d
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
index 6e75e8a0..a82b75fd 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Optional;
-import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ import org.mockserver.model.HttpRequest;
 import org.mockserver.model.HttpResponse;
 import org.mockserver.model.MediaType;
 
-import com.aayushatharva.brotli4j.encoder.BrotliOutputStream;
 import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
 import com.commafeed.CommaFeedConfiguration;
 import com.commafeed.CommaFeedVersion;
@@ -309,10 +307,7 @@ class HttpGetterTest {
 	@Nested
 	class Compression {
 
-		@Test
-		void deflate() throws Exception {
-			supportsCompression("deflate", DeflaterOutputStream::new);
-		}
+		private static final String ACCEPT_ENCODING = "gzip, deflate";
 
 		@Test
 		void gzip() throws Exception {
@@ -320,8 +315,8 @@ class HttpGetterTest {
 		}
 
 		@Test
-		void br() throws Exception {
-			supportsCompression("br", BrotliOutputStream::new);
+		void deflate() throws Exception {
+			supportsCompression("deflate", DeflaterOutputStream::new);
 		}
 
 		void supportsCompression(String encoding, CompressionOutputStreamFunction compressionOutputStreamFunction) throws Exception {
@@ -329,8 +324,9 @@ class HttpGetterTest {
 
 			HttpGetterTest.this.mockServerClient.when(HttpRequest.request().withMethod("GET")).respond(req -> {
 				String acceptEncodingHeader = req.getFirstHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT_ENCODING);
-				if (!Set.of(acceptEncodingHeader.split(", ")).contains(encoding)) {
-					throw new Exception(encoding + " should be in the Accept-Encoding header");
+				if (!ACCEPT_ENCODING.equals(acceptEncodingHeader)) {
+					throw new Exception("Wrong value in the Accept-Encoding header, should be '%s' but was '%s'".formatted(ACCEPT_ENCODING,
+							acceptEncodingHeader));
 				}
 
 				ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();