diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1480e4f..f7f576f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ This package provides a `net/http`-compatible `http.Handler` to do so, with
 support for:
 - compression
   - gzip
-  - brotli, if you have the external compression binary available at pack time
+  - brotli
   - does not yet support Transfer-Encoding, only Accept-Encoding/Content-Encoding
 - etags
 - ranges